Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 03/07

20070073637 - Document distribution system and method using webdav protocol: A document distribution system and method using a WebDAV protocol. The system includes a WebDAV server; and a first client to transmit a document to the WebDAV server using the WebDAV protocol, wherein the first client transmits the document to a predetermined directory of the WebDAV server. Accordingly, the document... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070073636 - Dynamic mailbox size configuration by self modification based on historical behavior: The present invention relates generally to call control system sub-processes for a telephone private branch exchange, and, more particularly, to the configuration of mailboxes for those sub-processes. A call control system comprising a plurality of processes, a mailbox for each of said processes, and wherein one of said processes, is... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070073633 - Method and apparatus for external event notification management over in-band and out-of-band networks in storage system controllers: Methods and systems for managing user access to a storage system storage controller are provided. In particular, user login requirements and permissions are administered, and individual user and external user interface pairs are tracked, through a user table and a session table established as part of the storage system controller.... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070073640 - Method and system for distributing software features to a computer: A method (300) of distributing software features (particularly software products having a global portion and a user portion necessary for activating the software products) to client workstations of a network; each client workstation has a multi-user operating system, and may be accessed (327-328) with different user profiles each one associated... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070073634 - Non-indexed in-memory data storage and retrieval: Systems, methods and user interfaces that allow rapid storage and retrieval of trading data are provided. Trading data records are arranged as a non-indexed collection of data records. The physical location of trading data records stored in a computer-readable medium corresponds to the order that queries are performed. Queries may... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20070073639 - Resilient data storage on optical media: A data resilience component ensures data integrity by storing a data file and a copy thereof in non-overlapping sectors along the spiral information track of an optical storage medium. The number and location of sectors of the optical storage medium are determined, and, in dependence on this data, the number... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070073632 - Setting up a communication connection using an embedded unique communication identifier: The invention relates to a system to be used for setting up a communication connection between a number of communication devices across a communication network. The system comprises a similar number of identification means in which the same unique communication identifier is embedded; the communication identifier is unique on the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070073638 - System and method for using soft links to managed content: A system and method for using soft links to managed content is described, wherein data is stored within a content repository in the form of nodes arranged in a hierarchical structure. Soft links are created and associated with content nodes by having a reference pointer to a node that is... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073635 - Table rows filter: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a table rows filter. A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a computer display device includes loading data into a table node data structure memory, the table node data structure including node elements and attributes, each of the node elements including a... Agent: Holland & Knight, LLP

20070073645 - Apparatus and method for identifying relationship mismatches during profiling of multiple data sources: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to receive a request to compare a first data set and a second data set. Data from the first data set and the second data set is ordered to comply with specified criteria and thereby form ordered data. The ordered data is joined... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070073644 - Database optimization apparatus and method: A database optimizer collects statistics regarding applications accessing a database, and makes one or more changes to the database schema to optimize performance according to the collected statistics. In a first embodiment, the optimizer detects when a certain type of application accesses the database a percentage of time that exceeds... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070073641 - Method and system for improving search results: A method and system is provided that in a fully automated manner improves the results of online or network-based search. An exemplary method according to the invention is a method for improving search results by first receiving a search query containing one or more query terms from a user, and... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070073643 - Multi-tiered query processing techniques for minus and intersect operators: Various techniques are described for processing database commands that include MINUS and/or INTERSECT operators. The queries containing the MINUS and/or INTERSECT operators are transformed to create a plurality of transformed queries. Each of the transformed queries produces the same result as the original query, but does not include the MINUS... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070073647 - Optimizing access to a database: A method, database system and computer program are disclosed for optimizing a SQL query, in which the SQL query includes an IN-List. An evaluation is performed to determine whether the IN-List query can be performed as a join operation. If so, a new access path that converting IN-List to a... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070073642 - Parallel query processing techniques for minus and intersect operators: Various techniques are described for processing database commands that include MINUS and/or INTERSECT operators. According to one technique, the database server executes the MINUS/INTERSECT in a specialized rowsource in parallel. In one approach, the specialized rowsource implements a sort merge-join like solution, where: a DISTINCT SORT is performed on each... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070073646 - User profiler: In a user profiler used for program recommendation, a user profile which differs particularly according to the season is extracted, saved and appropriately re-used. For this purpose, there are provided a user profiler which extracts user profiles based on program information and a user's view history, and a profile memory... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070073657 - Apparatus and method for utilizing a materialized query table in a computer database system: An apparatus and method to utilize MQTs in a more efficient manner a computer database to improve database performance and utility. In preferred embodiments, the query optimizer determines if a valid but non-refreshed MQT exists and rewrites a query to operate over the MQT and over the base tables and... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070073666 - Data transmission system, data transmission method, data transmission apparatus, and computer usable medium therefor: A data transmission system having a server and a search criterion setting system is further provided with a preliminary search system, a preliminary obtaining system, an entry information notifying system, a search criterion storing system, a substantial search system, a substantial obtaining system, an extracting system, and a data transmitting... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070073662 - Data transmission system, device, and method: There is provided a data transmission device, which comprises a user input reception unit, a display unit, a directory selection unit configured to select a directory from among a plurality of directories in a hierarchical directory structure in accordance with an input for directory selection, a lower directory acquisition unit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070073650 - Displaying information on a mobile device: A computer-implemented method for providing hypertext content to a mobile device may include obtaining a network-accessible electronic document that has content and an image, advertising material, or a plurality of similarly formatted hyperlinks. The network-accessible electronic document may be reformatted by collapsing the image, the advertising material, or the plurality... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070073658 - Efficient handling of multipart queries against relational data: A query having multiple parts may be processed to form an intermediate results set. This intermediate results set may be partitioned into a plurality of groups. Thereafter, the groups may be sorted into a plurality of containers so that each container contains data sufficient to calculate one requested result in... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070073655 - Enhancing tables and sql interaction with queue semantics: A database management system returns data from a database table in response to a database query. It does so by accessing an ordered list that indicates an order of retrieval for one or more rows in the database table and returning data from a row that is first in the... Agent: Harden E. Stevens, Iii Intellectual Property Section

20070073668 - Expanded inverted index: Indexing documents is accomplished by generating an inverted index for a collection of one or more documents. The inverted index includes an inverted list for an index term appearing in one or more of the documents in the collection, and one or more postings. A posting includes a document identifier... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070073665 - Information providing system and information providing method: An information providing system 1 comprises an inhibition storing section 101 for preliminary storing inhibition information relating to inhibition factors corresponding to scheduled information relating to the scheduled activity; a candidate storing section 102 for preliminary storing candidate information relating to candidates of a coping method corresponding to the inhibition... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070073649 - Information recording device, information recording method, and information recording program: Information items related to a plurality of musical pieces designated can be stored at a time. A storage means 1a can hold the information items related to contents. A receiving means 1b receives information items related to a plurality of contents broadcast. A temporary storage means 1c stores the information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070073652 - Lightweight reference user interface: A lightweight information user interface is provided for displaying information about a selected text item, data item or other object in an electronic document that minimizes interruption of workflow with the electronic document. Upon selection of an item in an electronic document a quick look-up function may be invoked for... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070073664 - Method and system for transmitting pre-formulated query to database: A method of transmitting a query to a database, the method including: maintaining a database gateway storing at least one query corresponding to a predetermined group identifier and a query identifier; maintaining a database list of a plurality of databases connected to the database gateway; receiving a group identifier and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070073660 - Method of validating requests for sender reputation information: A method of validating queries for reputation scores of message senders comprises receiving, from a first host computer, a DNS format query to obtain a reputation score associated with a second host computer, wherein the query includes an authentication code; validating the authentication code; and only when validating the authentication... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070073654 - Methods, systems and computer program products for synthesizing diagnoses in healthcare databases: Methods, systems and computer program products for synthesizing diagnoses stored in healthcare databases are provided. A diagnosis query associated with a single patient or a group of patients is received. Query results are provided responsive to the diagnosis query. The query results may include diagnoses from multiple sources that are... Agent: Elizabeth A. Stanek Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070073653 - Patent related search method and system: A method and system for searching patent-related documents includes selecting a portion of a selected claim of a patent and selecting a portion of a disclosure of the patent. The method further includes comparing the claim portion with the disclosure portion. Based on the comparison, claim interpretation data may be... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070073648 - Search device and information providing system: A search device and an information providing system are structured, to lessen a user's operation load, such that a crawling portion executes a crawling while sequentially changing an expansion header indicating a voice display capacity in an HTTP request into a voice display capacity of a typical model within each... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070073667 - Search system and method using a plurality of searching criterion: Disclosed is a search system using a plurality of search references, and a search method thereof. When a search word is provided by a user terminal through a network, search targets to be searched are established based on the search word. The search process is performed by applying different search... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070073659 - System and method for negotiating term and condition entries of a legal document: The present invention provides a method for negotiating term and condition entries of a legal document. The method includes the steps of: setting contact information of users related to the legal document; displaying term and condition entries of the legal document; reviewing the term and condition entries; determining whether the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070073663 - System and method for providing full-text searching of managed content: A system and method for providing full text searching of content within a content management system are disclosed. A repository can maintain content in a plurality of nodes of various content types that have binary as well as metadata properties. An abstracted application programming interface can be provided for constructing... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073661 - System and method for providing nested types for content management: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing nested variables in a content management system. These mechanisms and methods for providing nested variables in a content management system can enable users to model types that can be used within other type definitions. This differs from the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073651 - System and method for responding to a user query: This invention provides a system and method for responding to a user query. An identifier identifies an answer to a user query based on data in one or more structured data collections. A search engine in communication with the identifier searches, based on the answer, a systematically-generated, automatically-updated index of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073656 - Wireless device with application search function: A mobile communication device and method of use are disclosed. The mobile communication device includes an alpha search function adapted to seek and retrieve application names, or application settings, or both from memory in a user-friendly manner.... Agent: William S. Francos, Esquire Volentine Francos & Whitt, PLLC.

20070073675 - Database query translation: A method of translating a relational database query from a first format to a second format comprises receiving a query in a first format, converting the query into a text-only document, processing the text-only document according to predefined rules to create an amended text-only document, copying the amended text-only document... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20070073671 - Method and system for interacting with a virtual content repository: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing content management security to federated content repositories in a content management system and for interacting with a virtual content repository. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide secure access to repositories based upon policies defined at... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073676 - Optimizing the processing of in-list rows: A method, database system and computer program are disclosed for optimizing a SQL query, in which the SQL query includes an IN-List. The method includes utilizing an array insert to insert the IN-List into a spool and piggybacking IN-List rows into a join step.... Agent: John D. Cowart, Intellectual Property Section Law Department, Ncr Corporation

20070073673 - System and method for content management security: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing content management security to federated content repositories in a content management system and for interacting with a virtual content repository. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide secure access to repositories based upon policies defined at... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073672 - System and method for lightweight loading for managing content: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing lightweight loading for managing content in federated content repositories. These mechanisms and methods for providing lightweight loading for managing content in federated content repositories can enable embodiments to provide subset(s) of content determined to satisfy the request from... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073670 - System and method for providing an spi bridge for content management system: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing a Service Provider Interface (SPI) bridge for a content management system. These mechanisms and methods for providing a Service Provider Interface (SPI) bridge for a content management system can enable embodiments to integrate JSR-170 repositories that are not... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073674 - System and method for providing federated events for content management systems: A system and method for providing federated events to content management systems is described. A virtual content repository is provided that federates content from one or more underlying repositories and presents it to clients as though it were contained within one data store. The virtual content repository can include a... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073669 - Tagging offline content with context-sensitive search-enabling keywords: Techniques for providing information about “offline” content are provided. In one technique, content (e.g., televised or paper-printed content) is “tagged” with a service-associated icon and a keyword. A person seeing the icon in the content may submit the keyword to the service via his web browser. The service responsively submits... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070073680 - Semantic analysis apparatus, semantic analysis method and semantic analysis program: A semantic analysis apparatus includes a data obtaining unit that obtains data in which an item name and an item value belonging to the item name are represented in a predetermined data format; an item value extracting unit that extracts the item value from the data based on the data... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070073678 - Semantic document profiling: A method of semantic profiling of documents comprises receiving a document to be profiled, the document comprising a plurality of terms, for each of at least a portion of the plurality of terms in the document determining a part of speech and a grammatical function of the term, obtaining senses... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070073677 - System and method for accessing computer files, using local links and printed symbols: A document management system includes: a symbol (5); a publication (4) to which the symbol (5) is affixed; a computer file with which the symbol (5) is unequivocally associated; a computer (1) or a computer network which can be accessed by the computer (1) containing the file; a reader (2)... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070073679 - System and method for generating a bill of material file: An exemplary method for generating a BOM file is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: extracting data on components of a circuit design diagram of a motherboard, and storing the data in an spreadsheet as a non-standardized original BOM file; determining whether the data meet requirements corresponding to designing... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070073681 - User profile classification by web usage analysis: Demographic information of an Internet user is predicted based on an analysis of accessed web pages. Web pages accessed by the Internet user are detected and mapped to a user path vector which is converted to a normalized weighted user path vector. A centroid vector identifies web page access patterns... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070073682 - User profile classification by web usage analysis: Demographic information of an Internet user is predicted based on an analysis of accessed web pages. Web pages accessed by the Internet user are detected and mapped to a user path vector which is converted to a normalized weighted user path vector. A centroid vector identifies web page access patterns... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070073689 - Automated intelligent discovery engine for classifying computer data files: A novel software engine employs a method of classifying computer data files that at least includes: establishing a plurality of data file classification rules; choosing a weighted factor for each the data file classification rule utilized; scanning at least a portion of a computer system data files; for each data... Agent: Gregory P. Gadson, Esq.

20070073686 - Method and system for full text indexing optimization through identification of idle and active content: A system for full text indexing optimization that operates based on identification of idle and active content in a content source, and by prioritizing indexing of idle content over active content. Active and idle content items are automatically identified, and idle content items are given a higher priority for indexing,... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070073688 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically associating data with a resource as metadata based on a characteristic of the resource: Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically associating data with a resource as metadata based on a characteristic of the resource are disclosed. According to one method, a metadata association rule is defined for a metadata associator. The metadata association rule specifies a data value to be associated with... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20070073684 - Retrieving information items from a data storage: The invention relates to a method of retrieving a plurality of information items from a data storage, the method comprising: submitting a request to the data storage, the request comprising a general classification; retrieving the plurality of information items of which at least a predefined amount of the plurality of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070073690 - System and method for augmenting content in electronic documents with links to contextually relevant information: An electronic document and associated system, methods and apparatus is described. The electronic document is loaded in a user device configured to communicate with an external device that generates instructions for augmenting content contained in the electronic document with links to contextually relevant information. The content can be augmented with... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070073687 - System and method for providing enhanced questions for matching in a network environment: An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site includes a set of questions for... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073683 - System and method for question answering document retrieval: A retrieval device (22) retrieves associated documents on the basis of a keyword contained in a question serving as a retrieval request in question form from a user. The retrieval device (22) extracts descriptions associated with the keyword and contained in the retrieved documents as first summaries. A summary extraction... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070073685 - Systems and methods for valuing receivables: The present invention provides systems and methods for processing receivables data, such as medical receivables, to provide the receivables as an asset with a qualified financial value for a financial services domain. The medical receivables data may include an identifier of a health care related service for which a claim... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070073692 - Information processing equipment and method for determining the priority of input keys thereof: Information processing equipment which changes the priority for operations executed in response to simultaneous manipulation of multiple keys in accordance with the operational stage in an application wherein the simultaneous manipulation is performed. Thus, an operation more suitable for the operational stage can be performed even if a user simultaneously... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070073691 - Server side filtering and sorting with field level security: A project management system is enabled to implement filtering, sorting, and field level security for data associated with managed projects. A filter for field selection is prepared by a project client application and forwarded to a project server. The server generates an access attribute table based the user permissions that... Agent: Carl K. Turk Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070073693 - Transaction and task scheduler: The described implementations relate to efficient scheduling of transactions and tasks. A memory location, address, or variable previously accessed by a blocked entity is observed periodically to determine an appropriate time to wake and retry the blocked entity. If the previous accessed memory location, address or variable changes state, a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070073698 - Apparatus for managing confidentiality of information, and method thereof: An apparatus which manages confidentiality of information. This apparatus includes: a recording unit operable to record information in association with a history of users having accessed the information, or, with access rights defining users able to access the information; a generating unit operable to generate management information indicating whether the... Agent: Ido Tuchman

20070073699 - Identity management system for managing access to resources: An enterprise network has a plurality of applications or resources and an identity management (IDM) system for provisioning of users at those resources. The IDM system uses handlers and rules libraries for provisioning. The handlers organize provisioning tasks that are common to all the resources. The rules libraries have a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070073694 - Method and apparatus of determining access rights to content items: Access rights to content items, such as personal photos etc, is determined in response to content metadata and requester metadata. A plurality of content items is stored in a content item store. An access right processor determines content metadata for the plurality of content items. When a request for a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070073696 - Online data verification of listing data: A system and method for online verification of data including receiving listing information associated with an entity, determining whether the listing information corresponds to an entry in a database, generating an identifier based on whether the listing information corresponds to an entry in a database, outputting the identifier to a... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070073695 - Server side filtering and sorting with field level security: A project management system is enabled to implement filtering, sorting, and field level security for data associated with managed projects. A filter for field selection is prepared by a project client application and forwarded to a project server. The server generates an access attribute table based the user permissions that... Agent: Carl K. Turk Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070073697 - System, method, and computer program product for internet tool: A method, apparatus and computer program product for an interface for receiving a user input and a user selection signal and for concurrently supporting a set of service templates; and a specification compiling system communicable to a network supporting the network resource for combining the user input with a user-specified... Agent: Michael E. Woods Patent Law Offices Of Michael E. Woods

20070073730 - Apparatus and method for providing remote user interface: An apparatus and method for providing an image-based remote user interface (UI) using a web browser are provided. A server includes an user interface (UI) application which provides a dynamic image; a server communication module which, if the dynamic image is updated, transmits an image update event for the updated... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070073721 - Apparatus and method for serviced data profiling operations: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to establish a mapping mechanism to facilitate access to profile data from a set of client applications. A client profiling task from a requesting client application of the set of client applications is processed to form processed data. The processed data is passed... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070073722 - Calculation and presentation of mobile content expected value: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for receiving data associated with mobile content, calculating an expected value of the mobile content based at least in part on the data received, and presenting the expected value to a sponsor.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070073709 - Centralized server-directed power management in a distributed computing system: In one embodiment, a method includes periodically collecting device operation data from a plurality of client devices of a distributed computing system, and making power management decisions for the distributed computing system based on the collected data.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073729 - Computer system: A invented computer system has a plurality of computer boards; a plurality of terminals, each of which is coupled to each of the computer boards respectively via a network; a storage device having a plurality of storage areas, which is coupled to each of the computer boards; and a management... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070073723 - Dynamic bidding and expected value: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for receiving data associated with a mobile content, calculating an expected value of the mobile content based at least in part on the data received, and determining a bid amount for a sponsorship of the mobile content based at least... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070073700 - Electronic data exchange system and method: In a system and a method of electronic data exchange for retrieving information used to carry out processes, at least one application is used to retrieve the information, and the application retrieves situation-specific information.... Agent: Striker Striker & Stenby

20070073720 - Email server for processing a threshold number of email jobs for a given user and related methods: An electronic mail (email) server may include a pending email job queue manager for storing a plurality of email jobs for a plurality of users, and a processing email job queue manager. The processing email job queue manager may be for processing a threshold number of email jobs from the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070073708 - Generation of topical subjects from alert search terms: Topical subjects are identified from search terms that are submitted by users registering for alerts. In one implementation, registration requests to transmit email alerts to a user are received and stored. Topical subjects are identified based on an analysis of the email alerts that were registered in a predetermined time... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070073714 - Information providing server, information providing system, information providing method and information providing program: The objective of the present invention is to distribute a variety of information to a user without the user being forced to perform an unnecessary operation, so that the effects produced by information distribution can be improved. An email, which serves as a search trigger, is received from a portable... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070073704 - Information service that gathers information from multiple information sources, processes the information, and distributes the information to multiple users and user communities through an information-service interface: Embodiments of the present invention include information services, methods and systems to facilitate gathering and management of information by home users and professional users of information gathering, processing, and distribution services, and user interfaces through which users communicate with information services. In one embodiment of the present invention, a central... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20070073716 - Just in time wiring information system: A just in time wiring information system, which includes an aircraft wiring information system module, a technical reference module, an interactive computer aided cable repair system module, and an e-suite. The e-suite communicates with the aircraft wiring information system module, the technical reference module, and the interactive computer aided cable... Agent: Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Office Of Counsel Bldg 435

20070073703 - Ldap to sql database proxy system and method: An LDAP to SQL proxy to adapt a relational database as a directory service for an LDAP client is provided. The database may be defined in accordance with a database schema which is external to an LDAP server serving the LDAP client. The proxy comprises LDAP to SQL query and... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Suite 1600

20070073707 - Method and system for dynamically updating a websheet configuration: A method and structure for updating a configuration of a websheet. A client receives a web page including the websheet from a server. The websheet includes data values stored in a relational database table. The table includes a first set of data values displayed in cells of the websheet in... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070073705 - Method of dynamically linking objects operated on by a computational system: In a method for presenting to a user information operated on by a computational software application, a relationship between states of a user interface mechanism located on a workspace associated with the computational software application and an underlying object operated on by the computational software application may be determined. The... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070073717 - Mobile comparison shopping: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for recording user interaction data through navigation of a mobile search application, and transmitting the recorded user interaction data back to a server for application function analysis.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070073718 - Mobile search service instant activation: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for providing a user interface that simultaneously presents and activates a search box concurrently with activating a phone.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070073719 - Physical navigation of a mobile search application: In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for receiving information relating to a physical movement of a mobile communication facility, and linking the physical movement with navigation of a mobile search application. In embodiments, movement of the mobile communication facility may be detected by one or more... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070073701 - Provisioning a portlet viewer for viewing drag-and-drop content in a portal environment: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to drag-and-drop operations for content in a portal view and provide a method, system and computer program product for provisioning a portlet viewer for viewing drag-and-drop content in a portal environment. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070073733 - Synchronized backup of an object manager global database as part of a control blade redundancy service: A system and method of managing a switch includes installing a switch having a plurality of processor elements, installing an operating system on each processor element, creating a system virtual router and configuring the processor elements from the system virtual router.... Agent: Michael A. De Sanctis

20070073724 - System and method for automatic or semi-automatic software integration: A system for software integration is described having a graphical interface portion with a first processor adapted to manage the software components resident within the system and a second processor, useable by a system administrator, that manages and deploys the system and its components. The system also includes a management... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070073728 - System and method for automatically managing media content: A method, computer program product and computing device for receiving a request to load at least one new media content item on a personal media device. The size of the at least one new media content item is compared with the amount of storage space remaining on the personal media... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070073712 - System and method for modeling and managing enterprise architecture data and content models and their relationships: The present invention is a distributed system comprising client- and server-side components that, together, allow XML schemas or the like to be managed in a collaborative way across an enterprise environment. The server-side component, or server, is used to assemble a collection of one or more schemas. The server exposes... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070073711 - System and method for providing a pre-date component in a network environment: An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site includes a pre-date component that comprises... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073710 - System and method for providing a search feature in a network environment: An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site is operable to populate a queue... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073726 - System and method for queuing purchase transactions: A method, computer program product and computing device for presenting identifying information associated with at least one media content item, the identifying information being presented to a user on a personal media device. A purchase request to purchase the at least one media content item associated with the identifying information... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070073725 - System and method for sharing personas: A method, computer program product and computing device for generating a first user media persona on a first personal media device. The first user media persona being based on user data concerning media content associated with a first user. Communication is established with a second personal media device associated with... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070073727 - System and method for transferring playlists: A method, computer program product and computing device for selecting at least one playlist for transfer, the at least one playlist being stored on a first personal media device. The at least one playlist is converted to a common format, thus generating a first common format playlist. Communication is established... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070073715 - System and method of real time data accessing and initializing commands via wireless communication device: A method of real time data accessing and initializing commands via a wireless communication device includes the steps of: storing unified data in a unified data repository from corporate databases; logically configuring the unified data to leverage data-driven components and to prepare the unified data to be routed for a... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20070073732 - System for distributed task execution: Tasks can be done on a network of multiple computers interconnected by communication links. At each of the computers, Knowbot programs may be received and transmitted on the communication links, and may be stored and created; and execution of the tasks associated with the Knowbot programs may be advanced. Each... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070073702 - Systems and methods for mapping text: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for mapping at run time a value, such as a technical identification (ID) key, to text based on a text association. In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving at run time a request, from a user interface at a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070073731 - Systems and methods for remote storage of electronic data: Systems and methods for remote storage of electronic data are described. One aspect of one described method includes receiving a signal from a client processor, the signal includes information relating to a file and an action. The method also includes accessing a record in a database based at least in... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070073706 - Systems, methods and computer program products for retrieving and parsing data at runtime: Disclosed is a method, system and computer product for retrieving and parsing dynamic data at runtime by use of an interpreted language script that utilize Java and XML technologies. The interpreted scripting language uses a set of proxies, introspection and configuration to access and retrieve data elements that are in... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070073713 - Term search and link creation from a graphical user interface associated with presentation code: Various computer systems, methods, and associated computer software are provided for enabling a user to conveniently initiate a search of term(s) displayed by presentation code in a graphical user interface (GUI) and to create a link between the term(s) and resources identified in the search. One embodiment is a method... Agent: Adam E. Crall-carlton Fields, P.A.

20070073739 - Data-driven and plug-in defined event engine: An event engine enables application developers to define finite state machines (FSMs) that they want to implement, via a data-driven approach as opposed to having to hardcode the FSMs. The event engine has three notable characteristics: computations may be associated with FSM state transitions, the set of computations that is... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20070073747 - Information storage medium on which interactive contents version information is recorded, and recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus: An information storage medium on which interactive contents version information is recorded, a recording and reproducing method, and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus include minimum markup version information and minimum multimedia version information. Since a markup document can be displayed in a reproducing apparatus having a viewer version lower than... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070073746 - Method and apparatus for managing bookmark information for content stored in a networked media server: A method and apparatus for managing bookmark information of a media server through a network based on the UPnP AV standard is disclosed. If a request for bookmarking a content item is made, a bookmark item is created and the created bookmark item is linked to the content item by... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070073734 - Method of constructing preferred views of hierarchical data: Disclosed is a method of constructing at least one data structure from at least one data source. A representation is constructed of the data source and at least one previous view of the data source (eg. 23000). From the representations, at least one compulsory entity (eg. “branch”) is then identified.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070073742 - Multiple views for breakdown structure centric process representations: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to method and process management, and provide a data processing system, method, and computer program product for providing multiple views for breakdown centric process representations. In an embodiment of the invention, a data processing system configured for providing... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070073741 - Process contributions in a method architecture: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to method and process management, and provide a data processing system, method, and computer program product for process contributions in a method architecture. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a data processing system configured for... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070073735 - Repair of network communication files: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and devices for repairing computer files that impair network communications. In this regard, one embodiment of such a method, among others, can be broadly summarized by the following steps: extracting information corresponding to settings for network communications from a local resource file, wherein... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070073740 - Retrieving a value associated with a property based on a hierarchy of components: A data structure associates components in a hierarchy with corresponding maps that associate values with respective properties. In response to a request to retrieve a value associated with a first property for a first component that is part of the hierarchy, the data structure is accessed in an order defined... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070073745 - Similarity metric for semantic profiling: The method, system, and computer program provides the capability to compute measurements of the similarity between portions of text based on semantic profiles of the text portions. A computer-implemented method of determining similarity between portions of text comprises generating a semantic profile for at least two portions of text, each... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070073744 - System and method for providing link property types for content management: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing linked property types in a content management system. These mechanisms and methods for providing linked property types in a content management system can enable users to specify a new property definition type, which refers to another node instance... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073743 - Systems and methods for monitoring and detecting fraudulent uses of business applications: A systems and methods are described detect fraud in existing logs of raw data. There can be several disparate logs, each including data of disparate data types and generated by different and possibly unrelated software enterprise applications. The fraud management system aggregates and organizes the raw log data, archives the... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070073736 - Transformation directives in datatype definitions: The present invention provides computer-implemented methods and systems for providing a transformation directive in a data type definition statement. The transformation directive specifies one or more transformations to be applied to data before it is stored in a variable of the data type being defined. The runtime framework interprets the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070073738 - Unified method architecture: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for methods management. A methods management method can include establishing default structured relationships between different reusable method elements. The methods management method also can include creating descriptors within a process that mirror the default structured relationships. Finally, the... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070073737 - Update processes in an enterprise planning system: An enterprise planning system accumulates newly submitted planning data in a manner that minimizes database contention, allows ongoing entry of planning data, and allows queries against that data to return consistent results while accumulations are ongoing. An “update process” is the set of activities required to bring the entire data... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070073755 - Dynamic binding of process patterns in a method architecture: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to method and process management, and provide a data processing system, method, and computer program product for dynamic binding of a capability pattern to multiple processes in a method architecture. In accordance with an embodiment of the present... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070073750 - Editing lifecycle and deployment of objects in an industrial automation environment: An editor in an industrial automation environment comprises an input component that receives modification data relating to at least one of lifecycle and deployment of an object, the object is associated with a programmable logic controller and configured in accordance with a hierarchically structured data model. An implementation component can... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070073752 - Method and apparatus for transposing data trees: According to one embodiment, a method for transposing data trees includes translating a first data tree and a second data tree into a first format. A label within the second data tree is replaced with a label within the first data tree if the data in the first data tree... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073753 - Method and system for generating schema to java mapping descriptors and direct mapping of xml schema and java interfaces: A method and system for generating schema to Java mapping description. In one embodiment, default schema to Java mapping information is customized into customized schema to Java mapping information. An object having the customized mapping information is created, and schema to Java generation is initialized via the object.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073748 - Method and system for probabilistically quantifying and visualizing relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects: In one embodiment the present invention provides a novel method for probabilistically quantifying a degree of relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects, such as patent documents, non-patent documents, web pages, personal and corporate contacts information, product information, consumer behavior, technical or scientific information, address information,... Agent: Jonathan A. Barney

20070073749 - Semantic visual search engine: An improved method, device and computer program product for enabling a system to learn, categorize and search items such as images and video clips according to their semantic meanings. According to the present invention, prominent features can be separated from low-level features in an item using supervised learning approaches. Prominent... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070073756 - System and method configuring contextual based content with published content for display on a user interface: A system and method for generating secondary advertising content for presentation on a user interface of a device in association with primary publishing content. The system and method comprise a queue for receiving the primary content including a plurality of identifiable textual elements for analysis as candidates to associate with... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070073754 - System, method, and program product for optimizing a research and grant portfolio: Method, system, and program product for managing research grants. This is done by capturing at least one grant description into a database. Next one or more of researcher capability, researcher availabilities, and research subject availabilities are entered into the database. The grant description is then text mined to identify matches... Agent: Richard M. Goldman

20070073751 - User interfaces and related methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically associating data with a resource as metadata: User interfaces and related methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically associating data with a resource as metadata are disclosed. According to one method, a visual representation of data to be associated with a resource as metadata is displayed. A visual representation of a resource is displayed. User input... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20070073763 - Automated creation of model and view code: A method for generating computer code includes automatically generating a data structure based on a data description. Automatically generating a user interface based on the data description. Automatically generating linking code for linking the generated data structure, the user interface and control code.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073761 - Continual generation of index advice: Continual generation of index advice that includes generating an index advice for an index of a table in a computer database and recording values of statistical attributes of the index advice accumulated across repeated generations of the index advice. The generating and recording typically are carried out continually without user... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070073757 - Method and arrangement for the visualisation of data: A method and arrangement for the creation of a visualisation of data through “tree-mapping” displayed on a monitor with the aid of a computer, in which a structured tree is used to organize data, which data is visually presented through a map consisting of geometric elements. The geometric elements correspond... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070073760 - Method and system for generating schema to java mapping descriptors: A method and system for generating schema to Java descriptors. In one embodiment, a second object having customized schema to Java mapping information is created. The second object is placed within a first object. Via the first object, schema to Java generation is initiated.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073758 - Method and system for identifying targeted data on a web page: A method and system is provided that in a fully automated manner crawls web sites and identifies specific types of web pages, then extracts targeted data from those web pages. One or more text nodes containing product-related information on a first web page are first identified, and the locations of... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070073762 - Method, apparatus, and system for data modeling and processing: A method and system to process a domain. A domain is modeled with one or more domain models. Support models are generated from domain models. An ontological system utilizes the support models to interact with and manipulate the domain models. Further, the support models are used to describe domain model... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070073759 - Methods and systems for joining database tables using indexing data structures: A method for identifying joined rows in a database comprising a plurality of tables. The method comprises selecting a group of tables directly or indirectly joined with each other, selecting an order of the group based on relationships among the tables, generating an intermediate data structure which identifies the group... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20070073764 - Systems and methods for automatic database or file system maintenance and repair: The present invention relates generally to database and file system management and, more particularly, to automatic database and file system maintenance and repair to ensure data reliability. Various aspects of the present invention relate to responding and correcting data corruptions at a data page level for all data page types,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070073767 - Media identifier registry: A media identifier registry for managing metadata records. The registry stores a unique logical identifier for each of the records as well as a base type corresponding to each of the logical identifiers. The base types are representative of the information contained in the respective metadata records for the corresponding... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070073765 - Metadata-based schema generator: A database schema generator that extracts schema information from the metadata of a database schema editing tool and creates java objects that when run against a target database will restore the database schema including tables, views, indexes, stored procedures, and triggers.... Agent: Hui-min Chen

20070073766 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for mobile media management: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for mobile media management is provided. A user may capture media content on a media device. The captured media content may automatically be uploaded to a management server. Other users may access the uploaded media content from a variety of media devices. The media... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070073779 - Channel switch frame: Methods and apparatus to process multimedia data enabling faster channel acquisitions, improved error recovery and improved efficiency. An encoder device encodes a first portion of multimedia data using inter-coding to generate a first version, and encodes the first portion of multimedia data using intra-coding to generate a second version. A... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070073776 - Digital file management: An enterprise-level, digital asset management system enables users to upload digital assets (e.g., digital image files) to a central on-line site and to view, edit, manage, arrange, organize, annotate and adjust the digital images. Multiple parties can communicate and collaborate with one another in real-time in connection with a project... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070073778 - Graphical, computer-based, project component management: A system, and an associated methodology implemented by that system, for project component management in a defined-phase, plural-interrelated-component project. The methodology includes (a) establishing, for each of selected project components, a component-specific, graphical representation which is presentable on a display screen, (b) with respect to a selected project phase wherein... Agent: Robert D. Varitz, P.C.

20070073768 - Interactive system for building and sharing one's own databank of wisdom bytes, such as words of wisdom, basic truths and/or facts and and feats, in one or more languages: Interactive system for building and sharing one's own databank of wisdom bytes, such as words of wisdom, basic truths and/or facts and feats, in one or more languages, it being accepted that one may want to build such data based on one's personal interest, by well-defined classifications, that uses a... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20070073771 - Method and system for directly mapping web services interfaces and java interfaces: A method and system for directly mapping web services interfaces and Java interfaces. In one embodiment, default mapping information is identified, the default mapping information having default interface mapping information and default schema to Java mapping information. The default mapping information is then update and a mapping descriptor having the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073769 - Method and system for generating a web services meta model on the java stack: A method and system for creating a common model. In one embodiment, a web services model and a web service client model are identified. The web services and web services client models are then unified to create a common model.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073773 - Method and system for providing a link in an electronic file being presented to a user: A method for providing a link in an electronic file being presented to a user which includes defining a customized viewpoint for the user. The viewpoint includes a preference for the user that provides an association between a data pattern and a computer network resource. The method also includes generating... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20070073774 - Method and system for providing a link in an electronic file being presented to a user: A method for providing a link in an electronic file being presented to a user which includes defining a customized viewpoint for the user. The viewpoint includes a preference for the user that provides an association between a data pattern and a computer network resource. The method also includes generating... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20070073775 - Method and system for providing a link in an electronic file being presented to a user: A method for providing a link in an electronic file being presented to a user which includes defining a customized viewpoint for the user. The viewpoint includes a preference for the user that provides an association between a data pattern and a computer network resource. The method also includes generating... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20070073770 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for resource-to-resource metadata association: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for resource-to-resource metadata association. According to one method, a source resource and a destination resource are identified. A type of at least one of the source and destination resources is identified and used to select a transform for... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20070073772 - Productivity tracking for printer systems: A method for tracking printer productivity includes retrieving archived data stored on a remote printer that is connected to a network. The data is parsed and stored in a relational database. The data is retrieved from the database and used to generate a graphical representation of the data. The data... Agent: Lally & Lally LLP

20070073780 - Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of still pictures recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses: The recording medium includes a data structure with at least one playlist file stored in a playlist area of the recording medium. The playlist file includes at least one playitem, at least one sub-playitem and mark information. The playitem provides navigation information for reproducing at least one still picture from... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070073777 - System and method for web navigation using images: A system and method is provided for accessing information content that enables handheld or mobile device users, for example, to quickly and efficiently navigate images contained within the information content to access other areas of the information content. A user of the handheld device will request and receive information content,... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070073782 - File system migration in storage system: In a cluster type NAS, it is necessary to copy file data between disk devices of servers upon migration of a file system or a part of the file system. A server includes a control table for managing a file system or a part of the file system, and a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070073781 - Method and apparatus to capture and transmit dense diagnostic data of a file system: A processor selects file system metadata. A processor identifies each unit of data in a file system. The processor determines if the unit of data contains file system metadata. The processor writes a unit of data of metadata to a diagnostic file system, provided it was determined that the unit... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070073783 - Snapshot management apparatus and method, and storage system: Proposed are: a high-performance and highly-reliable snapshot management apparatus and method, and storage system, that can prevent the adverse influence of overhead when they retain a multiplicity of snapshots. An operational volume is set in a storage area provided by a first storage apparatus and a difference volume is set... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070073784 - System and method for type inheritance for content management: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for type inheritance in a content management system. These mechanisms and methods for type inheritance in a content management system can enable users to create types that extend from another type rather than create from scratch. The ability of embodiments... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073787 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing databases connected by wireless interface: A method of synchronizing a first database including first data records with a second database including second data records includes receiving information representative of the second data records and modifying the first data records of the first database in a unidirectional synchronization with the second data records of the second... Agent: Geoffrey B.c. Dekleine Perry + Partners

20070073786 - System and method for propagating security information in a web portal system: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for propagating security information for an application between a first environment and a second environment. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to propagate changes to security information from a first application instance in a first environment to a second... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073785 - System and method for propagation in a web portal system: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for determining an ordering for propagating changes to an application between a first environment and a second environment. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to propagate changes from a first application instance in a first environment to a second... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073791 - Centralized management of disparate multi-platform media: According to a particular embodiment of the present invention, a method for managing backup information is provided. The method includes collecting backup information from a plurality of backup products. The backup information collected from the plurality of backup products is converted into a common format. The collected backup information is... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073792 - System and method for removing residual data from memory: Systems and methods for removing residual data on a protected computer are described. In one variation, the location of a directory structure is a file storage device of the protected computer are identified. Information from the directory structure is retrieved and analyzed to determine whether residual data exists in the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070073793 - Free item distribution among multiple free lists during garbage collection for more efficient object allocation: A method, system, and program for improving free item distribution among multiple free lists during garbage collection for more efficient object allocation are provided. A garbage collector predicts future allocation requirements and then distributes free items to multiple subpool free lists and a TLH free list during the sweep phase... Agent: Amy J. Pattillo

20070073794 - Method for garbage collection of unused methods: The present invention provides a system and a method of improving the effectiveness of a data processing application when using a virtual machine, where the program includes many methods, i.e. program sections, that are stored in the memory of the computer used, and where garbage collecting is used by said... Agent: Sheldon R. Meyer

20070067252 - Archiving and data integration system: A system and computer software for archiving image and other data relating to medical research, having the capability to store images in digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) format. The images are retrievable using pointers contained in a relational data base where the image data is associated with experiments... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070067254 - Business model data management: A business model data management method can include identifying a business object within a business object structure document for a business application, locating data management rules for the identified business object in a business object descriptor document, and executing the located data management rules to represent the identified business object... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070067258 - Method and a system for performing a multidimensional categorization of a document repository: mapping the computed objects of the source category hierarchy (2) to the respective virtual mapping objects in the target category hierarchy (3). Furthermore, the invention also refers to an appropriate mapping algorithm, an appropriate computer system, a computer program and a computer program product.... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC

20070067255 - Method and system for accessing resources: In a method for accessing resources provided by an operating system, a request for a resource is received by an application program executing inside an environment. A first identifier associated with the resource is acquired. A registry is consulted, responsive to an association between a first identifier associated with the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070067253 - Method of downloading and installing a software object: A method of downloading an object using a surface having disposed therein or thereon first coded data being at least partially indicative of a download request for the object, the method including, in a processing system: receiving first indicating data from a sensing device, the first indicating data being at... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070067257 - Synchronizing shared resources in a collection: Multi-threaded access to a collection is synchronized without locking the collection for long periods of time. In one implementation, a collection is locked briefly to allow safe creation of a resource entry (or a placeholder entry) in the collection and then unlocked prior to the start of the resource build... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070067259 - System and method for automated compiling and generating item list information: A portable handheld electronic device provides automated compiling and generating of categorized item lists in accordance with user-defined preferences. In a preferred embodiment, the device includes voice recognition means adapted for recognizing the received assortment data present in received voice data. The device further includes storage means suitably adapted to... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070067256 - System and method for verifying and restoring the consistency of inode to pathname mappings in a filesystem: A system and method verifies and restores the consistency of inode to pathname mappings. In a first embodiment, an off-line verification procedure is modified to verify and correct the primary name inode to pathname mapping information within inodes of a file system. In a second embodiment, an on-line file system... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070067262 - Method and system for optimizing user database queries: A technique for retrieving from a database system data stored in one or more tables is useful in performing cost based query rewrite on user database queries. The technique involves receiving a database query having at least two input relations and evaluating the domain size of the join column(s) of... Agent: John D. Cowart Intellectual Property Section

20070067261 - System and a method for identifying a selection of index candidates for a database: A system and method for identifying a selection of index candidates for a relational database. The system includes a Predicate Analyzer for examining database queries in workload and recording column and predicate information; a Search Engine for performing a combinatorial search of index candidates; an Index Emulator for emulating the... Agent: James M. Stover Intellectual Property Section

20070067263 - System and method for providing virtual network attached storage using excess distributed storage capacity: A system and method are disclosed for using free storage capacity on a plurality of storage media as a virtual storage device on a computer network comprising a plurality of computers. A first portion of each storage medium stores data. To implement Virtual Network Attached Storage (VNAS), the respective “free”... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel PC

20070067260 - System, method and program to assess value of a computer program to a company: System, computer implemented method and program for assessing value of a computer program installed in a computer of a company. Determinations are made as to (a) an order that the computer program is started in a startup sequence of the computer, (b) whether the computer is used for production purposes,... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070067271 - Facilitating user interaction through cross-promotion of digital assets: An online user may manage a personal digital library that includes digital assets. A user also may request content to be added to the user's digital library by entering a search string, and related parameters, into a user interface. Any information that matches the search request and currently exists, or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070067266 - Generalized idempotent requests: A system and methodology that facilitate persistence for an execution state is provided. The system and methodology employ generalized “idempotent” request(s) that have the property they only execute a request once, and always return the result of that first execution should the request be repeated so as to ensure exactly... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070067268 - Navigation of structured data: A system and a method for facilitating navigation of stored information. A user interface configured to receive a search input is provided. In response to receipt of a search input, a data store is assessed. The data store may contain various information elements, and each of these elements may be... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070067272 - Search interface for mobile devices: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for providing a user interface for mobile devices. The user interface can include a search function that utilizes user input to search multiple software applications and data sources. Content can be retrieved and presented to a user without requiring the user to... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070067270 - Searching for possible restricted content related to electronic communications: In one aspect, a method related to electronic communications. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070067264 - System and method of forwarding end user correlated user and control plane or network states to oss system: A system is described for collecting data records which have been correlated to subscriber, or end user, access network, core network, transport network, and application service information, referred to as end user correlated data records and utilizing those records in a wireless or wireline network to identify and address correctable... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P. (ans)

20070067267 - Systems and methods for managing the display of sponsored links together with search results in a search engine system: We describe a method of managing sponsored links to be transmitted to mobile devices in response to search requests, the display of these links being responsive to time of day. The method comprises: maintaining records of advertiser accounts; monitoring an audience for the service; receiving from an advertiser a request... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070067269 - User interface: A machine with a user interface employs a reader to obtain user interface preferences from an electronic tag residing with the user and uses the user interface preferences to customize the user interface for the user.... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070067265 - Using one extensive portlet rather than multiple small portlets: Systems and methods are described that can be applied in an optimized implementation and maintenance of a portal-based user interface of a software application. A portal-based user interface employing a single portlet class can behave differently based on configuration settings and run time events, creating a distinction between a portlet... Agent: Canady & Lortz LLP- Ibm

20070067275 - Context sensitive web search queries: A computer-implemented system that facilitates establishing price(s) associated with items comprises a clustering component that clusters a collection of non-identical items into one or more sets of non-identical items. A pricing component receives one or more of active bids and stored bids and simulates an auction of at least one... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070067278 - Data file correlation system and method: A method for correlating data from a data source representing a single data file to a data target containing a plurality of data files is provided. The method includes normalizing the data from the data source, such as by removing white space and replacing data strings. One or more data... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20070067276 - Displaying stored content in a computer system portal window: A method of displaying stored content includes presenting, on a display device, a portal window that includes a data warehouse area dedicated to presenting data warehouse (DW) information retrieved by running a query in a data warehouse system. First DW information currently presented in the data warehouse area is retrieved... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070067274 - Hybrid push-down/pull-up of unions with expensive operations in a federated query processor: Disclosed are a method and a system for executing a query that requires an expensive process, such as a join, between two or more datasets. If each dataset has multiple partitions that are located at multiple sources, then each of the multiple partitions for each dataset must be unioned prior... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070067277 - Method for searching for user data in mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is a method for searching for user data in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes setting a search range based on at least one search range limitation condition selected by a user from a plurality of predetermined search range limitation conditions by which user data to be searched... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070067279 - Methods and apparatus for interactive searching techniques: Methods and systems for searching comprise presenting a first information set to a user, receiving feedback, applying an evolutionary algorithm based on the feedback to generate a search query, causing the search query to be executed to generate a second information set, and presenting the second information set to the... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20070067273 - System and method for response clustering: An interactive response, storage and tracking system delivered through an interactive medium (e.g. mobile, internet, kiosk in shops) whereby the provided visual stimuli enables consumers/respondents/users to select a stimulus that best answers their response to a given question. These visual ‘answers’ are then collated to form ‘clusters’ of respondents that... Agent: EagleIPLimited

20070067286 - Apparatus and method for organization and interpretation of multimedia data on a recording medium: Disclosed is an apparatus for displaying multimedia data, to be described in the format of MusicPhotoVideo (MPV) format, wherein, when an asset selected by a user is comprised of a single audio data and at least one or more image data, the audio data is provided and at least one... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070067288 - Community search system through network and method thereof: Disclosed is a community search system and method through a network. When a search word is provided by a user through the network, communities with information corresponding to the search word are searched. Reliabilities of the searched communities are estimated. The searched communities can be sequentially arranged according to the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070067282 - Domain-based spam-resistant ranking: A domain-based spam-resistant ranking architecture that computes trust in a domain based on web-servers on which a domain is hosted and a set of other domains that link to the domain. The ranks of pages are computed based on how much trust there is in each domain and which pages... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070067287 - E-learning system and a method of e-learning: An e-learning system and method for delivering one or more learning resource to a common group of users at one or more user terminals, the system including: a learning resource server for storing the one or more learning resource for delivery to at least one of the common group of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070067281 - Generalized latent semantic analysis: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that builds an association tensor (such as a matrix) to facilitate document and word-level processing operations. During operation, the system uses terms from a collection of documents to build an association tensor, which contains values representing pair-wise similarities between terms in... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center, Vaughn & Fleming C/o A. Richard Park, Reg. No. 41241

20070067285 - Method and apparatus for automatic entity disambiguation: Entity disambiguation resolves which names, words, or phrases in text correspond to distinct persons, organizations, locations, or other entities in the context of an entire corpus. The invention is based largely on language-independent algorithms. Thus, it is applicable not only to unstructured text from arbitrary human languages, but also to... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070067284 - Ranking functions using document usage statistics: Methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed. Computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing a method of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are also disclosed. Further, computing systems containing at least one application... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070067280 - System for recognising and classifying named entities: A Hidden Markov Model is used in Named Entity Recognition (NER). Using the constraint relaxation principle, a pattern induction algorithm is presented in the training process to induce effective patterns. The induced patterns are then used in the recognition process by a back-off modelling algorithm to resolve the data sparseness... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070067283 - Technique for implementing database queries for data streams using a curved fitting based approach: A stream of data can be estimated by a model to produce an estimated equation. The estimated equation can be used to calibrate a response to a SQL type join query.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070067289 - Extracting informative phrases from unstructured text: Disclosed is a method of extracting informative phrases from a full corpus of documents. An index of phrases contained in the full corpus of documents is built. Then, a user specifies a subset of text to analyze. The subset may be defined as: (1) all paragraphs or sentences containing terms... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070067290 - Metadata triggered notification for content searching: A method is provided for browsing a plurality of objects in search of one or more objects of interest, wherein a notification is triggered when a user focuses on, or otherwise activates or selects, an object having certain pre-defined metadata characteristics. A user device capable of enabling the user to... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070067291 - System and method for negative entity extraction technique: The present invention is directed toward a technique for the identification of operational entities in unstructured text. The technique consists of the preparation of a series of dictionaries, combining these dictionaries into a single Negative Element Dictionary, then searching an unstructured file for terms matching those in the Negative Element... Agent: Brian A. Kolo Suite 350

20070067294 - Readability and context identification and exploitation: Search systems and methods address the subjective nature of the relevancy of matches to users' queries through the use of readability formulae. As a result, the documents are ranked by relevance not only to user queries, but specifically to the user. In one approach, the searchable web (or a searchable... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070067292 - System and method of associating objects in search results: The invention is directed to a system and method of observing actions performed on a computer and inferring relationships between objects based on information corresponding to the observed actions. The invention provides an initial content-based search of the desktop system to generate a list that includes a relevance ranking of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070067293 - System and methods for automatically identifying answerable questions: A system and method for classifying questions in an information retrieval system as answerable and unanswerable. A model is provided on a machine-learning system derived from a training set of questions A test question is provided for classification, and the test question is classified as answerable or unanswerable by application... Agent: Baker & Botts L.L.P.

20070067295 - Using metadata stored in image files and a separate database to facilitate image retrieval: A digital camera for capturing images and for adding personal image metadata labels to the captured images, including an image sensor for capturing a plurality of images; an analog-to-digital converter for digitizing the plurality of captured images, from the image sensor, to produce a plurality of captured digital images. Also,... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070067296 - Network capacity planning: Data representing application deployment attributes, network topology, and network performance attributes based on a reduced set of element attributes is utilized to simulate application deployment. The data may be received from a user directly, a program that models a network topology or application behavior, and a wizard that implies the... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070067297 - System and methods for a micropayment-enabled marketplace with permission-based, self-service, precision-targeted delivery of advertising, entertainment and informational content and relationship marketing to anonymous internet users: A method of enabling anonymous Internet users to publish and manage extensive, non-identifying personal data, including demographic, psychographic, needs, wants, interests, propensities, means to purchase, credibility and other data which in turn, enables a marketplace wherein such users, advertisers, websites, and other third-parties can mutually benefit from the commercial exploitation... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20070067311 - Content communication system, content communication method, and communication terminal apparatus: A content communication system is disclosed which includes a communication terminal apparatus and a server, the apparatus having category IDs, the server delivering contents corresponding to the category IDs. The communication terminal apparatus includes a category holding device that holds a category ID; a sender device that sends the category... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070067306 - Content management system: A method of operating a content management system, the content management system including a central server and a plurality of content servers connected to the central server, each content server associated with a respective location, the method including receiving data at the central server for distribution to at least one... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070067305 - Display of search results on mobile device browser with background process: A query server of a mobile search engine system for searching content items accessible online, is arranged to send at least a first screenview of search results (63) to a browser of a mobile device (10), and send instructions (69, 74) in a scripting language to the browser for a... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070067307 - Method and apparatus for communicating list orders: A terminal for use by a list broker, a terminal for use by a list manager, and a terminal for use by a service bureau (list provider) of a supply chain in the list industry, each terminal including means for translating to and/or from native format an indication of a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070067299 - Method and apparatus for the centralized collection of geographically distributed data: The centralized collection of geographically distributed data is accomplished using a system which takes advantage of an interactive programming language, such as JAVA™ and existing wide area networks, such as the Internet including the world wide web (4), to collect high quality data in an information center (10). The information... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070067312 - Method and system for automating record storage on a record management server: A procedure and system is provided for automating storage of records on a records management server. The procedure includes storing the record on a records management server responsive to identifying an identifier in the record. The procedure also includes associating the record with a file on the server, wherein the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070067315 - Method and system for generating and providing rich media presentations optimized for a device over a network: The present invention provides rich media presentations to a requesting device when required. Attributes of the requesting device are determined and used to create optimized code for the requesting device. The attributes may include information relating to the operating system of the requesting device; a media player; a bandwidth parameter;... Agent: Attention Of Timothy P. Sullivan Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070067300 - Network alarm clock communicating alarm settings over a wireless or other local area network: A network controller is provided. The controller includes a network interface for transmitting and receiving messages over a network between the networked controller and each of a plurality of networked devices. A first of the networked devices has a time of day event notification indicator. A processor is operatively associated... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070067313 - Optmistic processing of messages in a messaging system: For processing messages in a messaging system comprising a source and a destination queue manager, an uncommitted message is received from an application at the source queue manager. This is transmitted to the destination queue manager and received thereat. When it is determined that the message is uncommitted, it is... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070067302 - Provisional authority in a distributed database: Writing data in a distributed database having a plurality of members and a master is disclosed. Writing includes receiving a write request at a member, writing to a version of the database on the member, propagating the write request to the master, and receiving an indication of the status of... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070067304 - Search using changes in prevalence of content items on the web: A search engine has a query server (50) arranged to receive a search query from a user and return search results, the query server being arranged to identify one or more of the content items relevant to the query, to access a record of changes over time of occurrences of... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070067309 - System and method for updating profiles: A method, computer program product and computing device for generating a first user profile associated with a first user of a media distribution system. The first user profile being stored on a first personal media device associated with the first user. The first user profile including at least a user... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070067303 - System and method for user interaction: Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in user interaction. A node and/or other computer might, for instance, come to be juxtaposed with an item, and/or might provide an interface to a user. The interface might, for example, allow the user to navigate among various offerings by moving the node and/or... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070067310 - System for performing a task in a communication network and methods thereof: A system, method, and computer program product for executing a task via a communication network, including devices configured to establish the communication network, wherein each of the devices includes a database having a a capability of the devices, wherein the devices are adapted for executing a pre-defined set of activities... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070067308 - System, method and computer program product for workflow-based data processing: An approach to workflow-based data processing is described, wherein as part of the workflow a multiplicity of display pages is executed interactively by means of workflow control commands. A suitable computer system comprises at least one user terminal with a user interface for page display (802) and for input of... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070067301 - Trial use of a collection of media files: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for sharing media files. One embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The system includes a file sharing application configured to initiate a communication session with a file server, where the file server that manages download requests... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070067298 - Two-stage data validation and mapping for database access: Input data queries directed at a plurality of target databases and originating from any of a plurality of sources are first converted to validated canonical forms, which are then used to query the target databases. Specifically, upon receiving an input data query, a relatively accurate reference database is selected based... Agent: Arthur M Dula Law Office Of Arthur M Dula

20070067314 - Virtual directory: A method, system and apparatus for providing a virtual directory to facilitate a quick, direct search for a web site on the Internet. A user is provided with an extensive number of first level search categories. By clicking on a first level search category, the user is linked to a... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070067320 - Detecting relationships in unstructured text: Disclosed are embodiments of a system and a method for detecting relationships described in unstructured text-based electronic documents. The system and method incorporate the use of an input file that contains one or more text patterns that represent particular relationships. The text patterns each include regular text expressions that describe... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070067323 - Fast file shredder system and method: A fast file shredder system has a state machine that converts a large XML file into a number of flat files. The state machine uses a serial access parser that parses the XML and places the appropriate parts of the XML file data into one of several flat files. When... Agent: Law Office Of Dale B. Halling, LLC

20070067318 - Heterogenous high availability cluster manager: A heterogeneous high availability cluster manager implements a method involving a reception of a first cluster management command in a first cluster management protocol, a conversion of the first cluster management command to a second cluster management command in a second cluster management protocol, and a sending of the second... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20070067321 - Method and system for locating and accessing resources: In a method for accessing resources provided by an operating system, a request for a resource is received by an application program executing inside an environment. A first identifier associated with the resource is acquired. A registry is consulted, responsive to an association between a first identifier associated with the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070067317 - Navigating through websites and like information sources: An interactive/electronic guide for allowing navigation around a group of electronic documents, such as on internet or in an intranet site or such like, the guide being operable automatically to present a plurality of topic identifiers together with an indication of the importance of the topics identified within a site.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070067322 - Political system, method and device: A Universal Political Platform System (UPPS) enables citizens to create and maintain a political party's platform. In a preferred embodiment, a citizen submits a “plank” —a principle, policy, or stance on an issue—via a disclosed electronic form. Other citizens then “ratify” or “oppose” the plank. When party members' ratifications or... Agent: Shelton E. Harrison, Jr.

20070067316 - Processing of a compileable computer program: A plurality of source files and one or more header files are provided. The header files that contain information that several of the source files refer to. The original files are preprocessed, each to generate a respective preprocessed file, said preprocessing comprising expanding the several of the source files with... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070067319 - System for building up hyperlinks of key words within text provided by content website: A hyperlink building system includes a key word database and an add-in module. The key word database has a plurality of advertisement key words stored therein and each of the advertisement key words corresponding to a uniform resource locator (URL) address. The add-in module is used to process a content... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070067326 - Method of managing storage and retrieval of data objects: A technique for managing storage of a data object in a storage device involves receiving the data object (A) to store in the storage device, where the data object has an indicator bit pattern (P). Successive compression data transformations are applied to data object A to obtain respective corresponding compressed... Agent: John D. Cowart Intellectual Property Section Law Department

20070067325 - Methods and apparatus to load and run software programs in data collection devices: Method and apparatus for creating, storing, loading and running programs used by devices incorporating a microprocessor and integrating or connected to RFID readers, such as data collection stations, data collection terminals, access gates, cellular phones and electrical or electronic devices, which may incorporate sensors for determining temperature, location, weight, or... Agent: Xsapio, Ltd. Att. Jorge Weitzner

20070067327 - Performing recursive database operators: A method and apparatus for performing recursive database operations is provided. According to one aspect, a plurality of first-stage slaves and a plurality of second-stage slaves are established in a database server. During one or more iterations of a recursive database operation, the first-stage slaves concurrently process data items stored... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070067324 - Real time work queue notification: A method of monitoring queues in real time can include building a master list specifying available queues, wherein each queue within the master list is associated with a user, and registering each queue specified by the master list with an instant messaging system. The method further can include sending, to... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070067334 - Database system and method for access control and workflow routing: A method for use with a database management system to produce a data structure encoded in computer readable memory that indicates a role associated with a transaction comprising: obtaining page context information that includes userid, subjectid, page name and a transaction identifier; providing a plurality of role views that associate... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070067332 - Distributed, secure digital file storage and retrieval: A distributed file system makes use of peer resources to store file segments that can be later re-assembled to reconstitute the original file. Encryption using public keys can be employed to provide access control to a select set of users, and file deletion can be accomplished by removing the file... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070067336 - Electronic publishing system and method for managing publishing requirements in a neutral format: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method of publishing that includes extracting a design specification from a document of a user, the design specification including at least one of page size, page margins, paragraph style, and font style. The method further includes creating a master format specification... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070067328 - Method for navigation in a list of elements and audiovisual receiver for the selection of elements in a list: The invention relates to a method for navigating in a list of items in an audiovisual receiver including a first step for generating an ordered list of items available in the receiver, a step for displaying a first sub-list extracted from the list including a first item highlighted at one... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070067329 - Overloaded communication session: A method of providing information responsive to a request from a wireless communication device involves receiving an information request from a mobile device and generating responsive information for the information request, transmitting a first portion of the responsive information to the mobile device in a first communication session, and transmitting... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070067330 - Security method for verifying and tracking service personnel: It is the principal object of the present invention to provide an improved identification method, which will facilitate the rapid and accurate identification of individuals. In addition, this allows sensitive locations to record and track service personnel that enter any secured area. The method incorporates the use of a identity... Agent: Michael A. Shippey, Ph. D.

20070067331 - System and method for selecting advertising in a social bookmarking system: One aspect relates to a social bookmarking system that has the capability of displaying advertisements based on user input provided to the system. Advertisements displayed to the user may be determined based on one or more classifications provided by the social bookmarking system and selected by the user. Further, classification... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070067335 - System for handling meta data for describing one or more resources and a method of handling meta data for describing one or more resources: A system for handling meta data for describing one or more resources, wherein the one or more resources are deliverable to a common group of users at one or more user terminals, the system including: a resource server for storing the one or more resources for delivery to at least... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070067333 - Web browsing method and system, and recording medium thereof: A web browsing method and system capable of easily selecting a hyperlink, and a recording medium thereof. The method includes: dividing a web page into regions based on the table structure of the web page; determining a specific hyperlink from hyperlinks in the web page based on information set in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070067337 - Method of managing retrieval of data objects from a storage device: A technique for use in managing retrieval of data objects from a storage device involves receiving over a communications bus a query to retrieve one or more data objects from the storage device. The query is used to generate one or more predicate conditionals such that data objects that do... Agent: John D. Cowart Ncr Corporation

20070067341 - Automated user interface functional requirements tool: A system and method for generating user interface specifications. A system is disclosed that includes a component database for storing sets of module data, wherein each set of module data describes a set of requirements for implementing a user interface activity; a module management system for managing the module data;... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070067342 - Calendar based image display system: A calendar-based image display system is disclosed. The calendar-based image display system uses the current calendar date and/or time to select an image to be displayed on the display screen of a computer, cellular telephone, personal digital assistant, or similar electronic device. Images are stored in a database that may... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070067343 - Determining the structure of relations and content of tuples from xml schema components: A method for determining relationships between hierarchically structured schema components and their effects on and content of tuples, includes: analyzing the hierarchically structured schema with user-supplied mappings and finding elements or attributes mapped to a same relational table; determining relationships between the elements or attributes to be either a one-to-one... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070067345 - Generating search requests from multimodal queries: A method and system for generating a search request from a multimodal query that includes a query image and query text is provided. The multimodal query system identifies images of a collection that are textually related to the query image based on similarity between words associated with each image and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070067340 - Individualizing and encrypting on-demand media content in retail kiosks: A system for selecting and recording data, comprising: a local storage unit for storing a subset of media content items and other content; a content selection unit to display a catalog of the media content items and other content, to allow a customer to browse, search, and select a media... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070067346 - Information processing apparatus used for operation management of an image forming apparatus: A sever records a history of designation of a function which is inexecutable by a printer. Additional function information indicating a function which is addable to the printer is stored in the database. The additional function information is retrieved from the database according to the inexecutable function being designated at... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070067344 - Instant message broadcasting and presence enabling from electronic mail application: A system and method for broadcasting a message to multiple contacts in a list of contacts provided by an electronic mail application and furnishing presence information for contacts in the list of contacts provided by the electronic mail application includes an interface for adding functionality to an electronic mail application... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070067347 - Method and apparatus for previewing recorded audio media: A method of previewing recorded audio media that allows a user or potential consumer to sample or preview the contents of recorded audio media, such as CDs, MP3 files, or audio tape. According to some embodiments, an apparatus is also provided for promoting the purchase of recorded audio media, and... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20070067348 - Repeated segment manager: The present invention provides a repeated segment manager for identifying and updating the repeated data segments. The repeated segment manager uses a search engine for automatically identifying the plurality of repeated data segments within one or more documents. The information described the identified repeated data segments is recorded in the... Agent: Dmitriy Andreyev #135

20070067339 - System for creating markup language documents at a receiving display station from multiple sources with markup for displaying the state of sets of content reviews: Creating, i.e. rendering, markup language documents having multiple content portions, respectively, from multiple sources. A set of displayable non-alphanumeric visual indicators, e.g. colors, is associated with each content portion, each indicator respectively representing the status of one of said set of content reviews. Then an implementation is provided enabling a... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070067338 - System for supporting introduction/operation of enterprise resource planning software: A system for supporting introduction/operation of Enterprise Resource Planning software by means of a computer. In this system, a document management unit (14) manages data for document including business flow diagrams expressing business flows by hierarchized business elements. A database (15) relates a business element to a customize item, its... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070067350 - Auto commit n option in a relational database: Methods and systems are provided for executing a statement to make changes to data in a relational database while preventing the statement from failing due to the transaction log file becoming filled up. An AUTO COMMIT n option is provided for statements such as SQL statements in order to execute... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20070067351 - Incremental update of virtual devices in a modeled network: In a network simulation system, a compiler is provided to support incremental updates to the configuration data associated with the modeled network. Each incremental change is identified and logged, to facilitate configuration management and select roll-backs to prior configurations. Because each update is processed and managed individually, and integrated automatically... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070067349 - Security in peer to peer synchronization applications: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates synchronizing data within a data storage system. An interface component can leverage a synchronization technique within the data storage system. A sync component can provide a secure peer to peer data synchronization based at least in part upon... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070067352 - Servicing queries in a database system: A system and method for managing SQL queries in a database system. The system and method allocates database sessions to database queries and manages the database sessions and queries to provide improved, near real-time access to a database system.... Agent: Intellectual Property Section Law Department

20070067356 - N-way synchronization of computer databases: A method and system for N-way synchronization of computer databases. Synchronization of computer databases is structured into three rounds, namely an agenda round, a query round and a report round. In the agenda round, a synchronization agent software module inquires of a common synchronization engine for updates to the agent's... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20070067355 - Network system, network management device and management method thereof: Operation history information related to operations performed at a plurality of devices and communication history information related to communications performed between the devices are managed. When an operation accompanied with a communication has been performed at the device, a predetermined action corresponding to the operation accompanied with the communication is... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070067354 - Productivity suite to line of business synchronization mechanism: A synchronization method is arranged to permit synchronization between a productivity suite application and a line of business (LOB) application such as a Customer Relation Management or CRM application. Requests are sent from the productivity suite application to the LOB application via a web service call to update, delete, or... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070067353 - Smart path finding for file operations: A method of smart path finding for a file operation is disclosed. A data structure is provided to store reference points, file paths and use counts. Each of the reference points is a URL or an email ID and is associated with at least one of the file paths. Each... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20070067359 - Centralized system for versioned data synchronization: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and a computer usable program code for managing versioning of a set objects in a network data processing system. A first message is sent to a plurality of data processing systems to cause the plurality of data processing systems to generate delta data for the... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070067358 - Method and apparatus for restoring versionable objects: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and a computer usable program code for managing objects. First, versioning data and a version identifier are stored for the object in a data structure in response to a request to create a version of an object. A determination is made as to whether the... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070067357 - Methods and apparatus to provide a database version control system: Methods and apparatus to provide a database version control system are disclosed. An illustrated example method comprises receiving a request to modify a first table of a database, inserting an entry in a second table in response to the request, storing information reflecting the modification in the second table, modifying... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070067363 - Event notification verification and escalation: Documents to be accessed over a computer network are stored in network data storage such that each document is associated with a document archive and a task is associated with each stored document. An escalation list is created for each task and is associated with the document archive so as... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20070067365 - Method and apparatus for archiving and unarchiving objects: The invention is directed towards methods and apparatuses for archiving and unarchiving objects. Some embodiments of the invention archive and unarchive objects that have first and second types of settings (e.g., global and user settings in multi-user environments). To archive each object, these embodiments initially identify which object settings are... Agent: Stattler, Johansen, And Adeli LLP

20070067364 - Network-attachable, file-accessible storage drive: Storage drive logic and a standalone tape file structure are described. File transfer logic transfers file data to and from a network according to a first protocol. Media access logic accesses a sequential-access storage medium associated with the drive according to a second protocol. Media management logic translates file-based commands... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070067361 - Semantic replication: Replicating data in a distributed database having a plurality of nodes is disclosed. Replicating includes receiving a semantic command at a local version of the database at a node, interpreting the semantic command, and applying the semantic command to the local version of the database.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070067360 - System and method for opportunistic transmission of test probe metadata: Measurement sensors are designed to provide metadata to data recording devices in an opportunistic manner to conserve bandwidth and/or power. In one embodiment, the metadata is communicated to the recording device during opportunistic periods, such as, for example, when actual data transmission can be skipped, or when battery level is... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070067362 - Undo function for unzipped files: Methods 300 and systems 100 are provided for managing files unzipped from a zipped archive file which may have been received, for example, as an email attachment. In response to an undo-unzip command from a user, a manifest associated with the archive is accessed that includes information for identifying the... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20070067368 - Apparatus, system, and method for dynamically allocating meta-data repository resources: An apparatus, system, and signal bearing medium are disclosed for dynamically allocating meta-data repository resources. In one embodiment, the present invention includes tracking resources allocated to a meta-data repository, evaluating repository usage of the resources allocated to a meta-data repository to ascertain whether a resource adjustment is desirable, determining the... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070067367 - Flexible approach to store attribute information (meta-data) related to files of a file system: A file system designed according to a convention which permits the addition of new attributes (potentially of new types not defined earlier) for any desired set of files. In one embodiment, addition of an attribute for a file requires rewriting of attributes (of other files) stored following the added new... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070067370 - Information processing apparatus, information displaying apparatus, and information processing method: An association output unit associates the contents information or the contents collection information received by an input receiving unit with predetermined contents information or predetermined contents collection information, and outputs associated information. A contents output unit outputs, from the contents information or the contents collection information that forms a tree... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070067369 - Method and system for quantifying and comparing workload on an application server: A workload identifier program works in conjunction with an autonomic manager to calculate a workload representation during a pre-determined interval, calculate a similarity metric for the current workload representation by comparing the current workload representation to workload representations during the previous pre-determined intervals, comparing the similarity metric to a threshold... Agent: Ibm Corp. (raleigh Software Group) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070067366 - Scalable partition memory mapping system: A virtualization infrastructure that allows multiple guest partitions to run within a host hardware partition. The host system is divided into distinct logical or virtual partitions and special infrastructure partitions are implemented to control resource management and to control physical I/O device drivers that are, in turn, used by operating... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20070067371 - Database structure and method: The present disclosure is directed generally to a system and method for content management. The system and method provides a rhetorical content model, and automated methods of generating proposals and other documents based thereon. The data storage system can map properties from an explicit data architecture to constructs in a... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070067373 - Methods and apparatuses to provide mobile applications: Methods and apparatuses to enable the development, deployment and update of composite applications on mobile devices. In one embodiment, a method processor in a mobile device uses a workflow engine to load modules for execution according to a workflow that specifies the execution flow directions based on the outcomes of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070067372 - Systems and methods for employing tagged types in a dynamic runtime environment: The present invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate dynamic programming language execution in a managed code environment. A class component is provided that declares an inheritance hierarchy for one or more tagged values associated with a dynamic programming language. During execution of the tagged values, a rules component... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070061278 - Automatic data retrieval system based on context-traversal history: A data retrieval system and method provide automatic retrieval of information based on a context-traversal history. A transferable object is identified in a first context while the user is operating in the first context. Information used to retrieve the transferable object is automatically stored without user involvement. The automatically stored... Agent: Ibm Lotus & Rational Sw C/o Guerin & Rodriguez

20070061283 - Business intelligence incorporated business process management system and method thereof: A business process management system provides one or more business intelligence (BI) gadgets, each providing a predefined functionality for extracting data from one or more data sources of an organization. The system allows embedment of one or more BI gadgets into a business process activity form for presenting to a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070061282 - Data network information distribution: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for delivering information of interests from content providers to clients via a data network. A network architecture includes two types of edge servers, referred to as forward proxy servers and reverse proxy servers. The forward proxy servers are assigned to serve particular clients with... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20070061276 - Device and method for registering a plurality of types of information: A common registration area for registering a plurality of types of information as unclassified information not classified for each category is displayed on a screen, and when a user performs an operation of registering arbitrary information in the registration area, specified information is registered as the unclassified information.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070061279 - Dirty shutdown recovery of file system filters: File system metadata regarding states of a file system affected by transactions is tracked consistently even in the face of dirty shutdowns which might cause rollbacks in transactions which have already been reflected in the metadata. In order to only request time- and resource-heavy rebuilding of metadata for metadata which... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070061280 - Fast select for fetch first n rows with order by: A method for fetching an ordered first N rows of a table, includes: reading a row in the table; determining that the read row qualifies as the first N rows of the table for rows read so far, and storing data of the read row; and determining an order of... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070061281 - Method and system to detect errors in computer systems by using state tracking: Disclosed are a method and system for detecting errors in a computer system including a processing unit to perform tasks to change items. The method comprises the steps of assigning a task control block to the processing unit, and using the task control block to keep track of items being... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070061277 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing dynamic deployment of grid services over a computer network: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for providing dynamic deployment of grid services over a computer network. The method comprises installing grid artifacts in a directory located on a target hosting environment in response to an invocation of an implementation of a... Agent: Philmore H. Colburn Ii Cantor Colburn LLP

20070061284 - Mobile communication terminal capable of separately managing an accompanying file and method thereof: Mobile communication terminal capable of managing separately an accompanying file according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a wireless circuit unit for receiving a message comprising an accompanying file, a display unit for displaying the received message, a memory unit for storing the received message and a controller... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070061285 - System and method for providing result sets using ejb query language: A system and method for accessing requested data in a database using result set objects. The invention also provides a set of enhancements to the EJB Query Language (“EJB QL”) for providing result sets using EJB QL and to efficiently access databases using select methods within Enterprise Java Beans. EJBQL... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070061290 - system and method for processing a prioritizing protocol: A system for processing a prioritizing protocol for a database, the system including an interface for nominating a first prioritizing protocol that maps a plurality of user accounts to one or more performance groups and to one or more periods; a processor that is responsive to the interface for defining... Agent: James M. Stover Intellectual Property Section

20070061288 - Dynamic semi-join processing with runtime optimization: Provided are a techniques for processing a query including semi-joins. At execution time, a next semi-join is selected from the semi-joins for execution in a current round of semi-join executions. A reporting threshold is determined that indicates a number of record-identifiers to be retrieved for the determined semi-join. The selected... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070061287 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for optimizing a data warehouse model and operation: A method, apparatus and program storage device for optimizing a data warehouse model and operation. Incoming queries issued against a data warehouse having a table join optimized by using a new query reroute technique. The reroute technique also enables data warehouse users to use the standard query-reroute technology to optimize... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20070061286 - System and method for partitioning an application utilizing a throughput-driven aggregation and mapping approach: A method and system to optimize throughput of executable program code are provided. The system comprises a profiler to receive a representation of a plurality of functions, an aggregator, and a mapper to map the plurality of aggregates to a plurality of processors. The aggregator may be configured to create... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070061291 - System and method of providing relational set operations for olap data sources: A tabular set provider is provided for processing a data agnostic business intelligence query with relational set operations, herein called a relational query against a multidimensional datasource. The tabular set provider comprises a query interceptor, a query decomposer, an OLAP query provider interface, and an operation module. The query interceptor... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070061292 - System and method of ready to render business intelligence result sets: A method of providing metadata and data based on an arbitrary request for information, relative to a original report layout specification, in such a manner that a software process can render the results of the request for information using only the original report layout specification and the results of the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070061289 - Validator and method for managing database system performance: A system for calculating demand on system resources in a database system, the system including an interface for receiving data indicative of database system operational characteristics; a processor responsive to the data for emulating the performance of a hypothetical database system having operational characteristics consistent with the data; and an... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070061295 - Adaptive picker for selecting data in disparate information systems: An adaptive picker for selecting data in disparate information systems is provided. The adaptive picker may be implemented by an application to pick items from one or more data stores, which are associated with other applications. The adaptive picker determines items provided by the data store that are available for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070061296 - Annotating documents in a collaborative application with data in disparate information systems: Systems and methods for annotating documents in provided in a collaborative application with data from disparate information systems are provided. The collaborative application enables the annotation of a document with data provided by another application. Particularly, the collaborative application enables a user to pick an item from a data store... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070061311 - Assisting a user for information search or retrieval: An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of assisting a current user for information search or retrieval. Upon receiving keyword information from the user, a previous user who has accessed an inaccessible document having the keyword information or who has used the keyword information may be searched.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070061312 - Computer search engine and method for retrieving information: A system and method for extracting data from a database includes populating a database with information that includes not only identifying the item but defining at least one specification for that entity or item and storing it in a table that correlates to the entity containing the defined specifications. An... Agent: The Weintraub Group, P.L.C

20070061313 - Detection of search behavior based associations between web sites: Various computer-implemented methods are disclosed for identifying web sites and web pages that are related to each other. One such method involves collecting search activity data indicative of particular search terms submitted, and corresponding search results selected, by each of a plurality of users. The accumulated search activity data is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070061308 - Expanded search and find user interface: A search and find user interface is provided that is integrated with a data indexing engine to allow efficient and high-speed data search and retrieval across data storage folders associated with a given software module or associated with a number of disparate software modules. An expanded form of the search... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070061307 - Integrated search and find user interface: A search and find user interface is provided that is integrated with a data indexing engine to allow efficient and high-speed data search and retrieval across data storage folders associated with a given software module or associated with a number of disparate software modules. An expanded form of the search... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070061302 - Location influenced search results: Improved mobile content presentation capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. Information relating to the location of mobile communication facilities and other capabilities are employed to improve the presentation and relevance of mobile content to appropriate or desirable mobile communication facilities.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061298 - Method and apparatus for adding a search filter for web pages based on page type: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method of providing context for a search is presented. A search query implemented in accordance with the teachings of the present invention includes a query and a context for the query. In one embodiment, the query is implemented with a... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070061293 - Method and apparatus to support mass changes to business objects in an integrated computer system: A tool for use in a computer system revises a large set of transaction records, for example hundreds or thousands of records, with a convenient user interface. An operator builds a query for a database to retrieve transaction records. The tool generates temporary copies of the transaction records that are... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070061310 - Method for extracting injustice of component attribute information and system for extracting injustice of object attribute information: A system for inspecting components by evaluating the degree of accuracy of component attribute information provided by third parties, wherein a performance unit for performing the evaluation of the component attribute information comprises a unit for extracting components similar to target components; a unit for determining the abnormality of component... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070061304 - Middleware and a method for implementing business logic using it: The present invention relates to a middleware for data communication between legacy systems and clients via wired or wireless communication network. The middleware includes a business logic database for storing business logics, an object creating module for determining a legacy system with which a business logic operates and creating a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070061300 - Mobile advertisement syndication: Improved mobile advertisement syndication capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. These and other capabilities are employed to improve delivery of mobile advertisements and their syndication, such as associating advertising content with websites, to appropriate or desirable mobile communication facilities.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061303 - Mobile search result clustering: Improved capabilities are disclosed for receiving a search query from a mobile communication facility and presenting at least one search result category to the mobile communication facility. In embodiments, search categories may be associated with a search vertical, and may use any number of categories or characteristics. Search categories may... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061299 - Network connecting device, server device, terminal device, system, receiving method, character input method, transmission method, program, and computer-readable storage medium: In a mobile phone, service searching means extracts a keyword(s) from program information regarding the program currently reproduced in the mobile phone, and searches a service registration database for all titles and addresses of message exchange system associated with the keyword(s). Menu displaying means displays a list of the acquired... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070061297 - Ranking blog documents: A blog search engine may receive a search query. The blog search engine may determine scores for a group of blog documents in response to the search query, where the scores are based on a relevance of the group of blog documents to the search query and a quality of... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070061306 - Search and find using expanded search scope: A search and find user interface is provided that is integrated with a data indexing engine to allow efficient and high-speed data search and retrieval across data storage folders associated with a given software module or associated with a number of disparate software modules. An expanded form of the search... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070061294 - Source code file search: A file search system and method are provided. The system and method can be employed, for example, to search computer programming source files (e.g., Visual Basic files, C++ files, etc.) to provide meaningful, context-based search results. The system can employ stored concatenated information associated with the search request to identify... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070061309 - System and method for color-based searching of media content: A method, computer program product and computing device for receiving a selected color representation selected by a user. At least one characteristic associated with the selected color representation is retrieved. One or more media data files, chosen from a plurality of media data files, associated with the at least one... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070061305 - System and method of providing date, arithmetic and other relational functions for olap sources: A tabular operation provider is provided for processing a data agnostic business intelligence query with relational operations, herein called a relational query against a multidimensional datasource. The tabular operation provider comprises a query interceptor, a query decomposer and a query replacer. The query interceptor detects and intercepts a relational query... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070061301 - User characteristic influenced search results: Improved mobile content presentation capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. Information relating to the user characteristics associated with a mobile communication facility and other capabilities are employed to improve the presentation and relevance of mobile content to appropriate or desirable mobile communication facilities.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061314 - Verbal web search with improved organization of documents based upon vocal gender analysis: A computer implemented method of organizing a set of documents, comprising receiving verbal utterances from a user; processing the verbal utterances using gender analysis routines, thereby determining a verbally identified gender of the user; processing the verbal utterances using speech recognition routines, thereby determining the content of a search query... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070061316 - Database search method, program, and apparatus: A search condition specifying unit specifies a search condition item, and specifies a re-search condition item which is desired to be re-searched based on the search result according to the search specified condition. A search processing unit extracts an item value corresponding to the re-search condition item from the search... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070061315 - Determination of useful convergence of static rank: An input or query is determined for which a search engine's static ranking computation is the answer. By understanding how this input or query differs from the posed input or query, the precise termination point of an iterative convergence problem can be determined. An iterative process provides the following inputs... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070061317 - Mobile search substring query completion: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for mobile search substring query entry completion, wherein complete search terms are presented to a user in response to a search query that is not a fully formed query.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061318 - System and method of data source agnostic querying: A data source agnostic query system and method are provided. The system comprises a query set component for defining data to be retrieved from a data source. The method comprises the step of decomposing a data source agnostic query into sub-queries. The step of decomposing includes the steps of identifying... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070061322 - Apparatus, method, and program product for searching expressions: The present invention effectively extracts useful information in a field in which a user is interested, using a search apparatus for searching expressions from a plurality of texts. The search apparatus records predetermined expressions in advance included in at least one text as expressions to be evaluated for which attention... Agent: Grant A. Johnson IBM Corporation

20070061321 - Method and system for processing ambiguous, multi-term search queries: In accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention, a method and system are provided of processing a search query entered by a user of a device having a text input interface with overloaded keys. The search query is directed at identifying an item from a set of items.... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070061319 - Method for document clustering based on page layout attributes: A method for document clustering based on page layout attributes is disclosed. A method for clustering a document page collection includes obtaining a document page collection, each document page in the collection having one or more features, the one or more features defining a page layout attribute; extracting information from... Agent: Palmer & Dodge, LLP Richard B. Smith

20070061320 - Multi-document keyphrase exctraction using partial mutual information: A keyphrase extraction system and method are provided. The system and method can be employed to create an automatic summary of a subset of document(s). The system can automatically extract a list of keyword(s) that can operate on multiple documents, and across many different domains. The system is unsupervised and... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070061323 - Apparatus and method for displaying data, and program thereof: A reference value calculation unit calculates, as a reference value, the value in which the mean value, the mode value and the median are averaged by obtaining the mean value, the mode value and the median for the year at which the document containing each keyword is published, based on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070061324 - Controlled access to image metadata: A system and method for controlling access to image metadata is disclosed, where metadata elements are defined for an image. The method and system include associating users who will access the image with roles, and associating the roles with individual metadata elements. In response to receiving a request for access... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070061325 - File managing apparatus and file managing method: A file managing apparatus includes user registration authority transfer unit of transferring user registration authority from a user holding the user registration authority that is authority to register a user having permitted file operation authority, notification unit of notifying the user registration authority to a first user, and user registering... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070061330 - Aggregated address books and methods, systems and computer program products for managing the same: Methods of managing data associated with an entity include providing an address book entry for the entity in an address book of a user. The address book entry has an associated name and includes a plurality of identifications associated with the entity. Data records associated with the entity are automatically... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070061329 - Arbitrating an appropriate back-end server to receive channels of a client session: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for arbitrating an appropriate back-end server to receive channels of a client connection. Each front-end server in a server farm specifies a back-end server in the server farm that it deems appropriate for receiving channels of a client connection.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070061340 - Data processor, data processing system, data processing method, and computer product: A data processor (client PC) is connected to a document data management apparatus (server PC) that manages the location of document data listed in a document data list. The data processor displays the document data list, and inquires the document data management apparatus about the location of document data. The... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070061337 - Electronic paper system, control apparatus and method for electronic paper system, storage medium storing control program: An electronic paper system includes: a document data storage which stores document data; an electronic paper having a display that displays and retains a document image based on the document data in a no-power state and a memory that readably and writably stores link information enabling access to the document... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070061328 - Managing sponsored content for delivery to mobile communication facilities: Improved capabilities are disclosed for managing delivery of sponsored content to mobile communication devices such as cell phones.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061339 - Method for analyzing browsing and device for implementing the method: For analyzing browsing taking place within the framework of a communication session carried by at least one communication interface, said communication session comprising at least one transfer protocol transaction involving a resource locator: a trace is captured on said communication interface; at least one transaction is identified from the trace... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070061335 - Multimodal search query processing: Improved capabilities are described for receiving a non-text based information request from a mobile communication facility, transforming the non-text based information request into a text based search query, and presenting a search result to the mobile communication facility based on the text based search query.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061336 - Presentation of sponsored content based on mobile transaction event: Improved capabilities are described for selecting content for presentation on a mobile communication facility, wherein the content selection is based at least in part on the relevance between the content and a transaction event associated with the mobile communication facility, and presenting the content to the mobile communication facility.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061331 - Presenting sponsored content on a mobile communication facility: Improved capabilities for positioning content on a mobile communication facility, based in part on the likelihood of interaction with the content, are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. These and other capabilities are employed to improve the likelihood of user interaction with content presented to a mobile... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061327 - Providing local access to managed content: A method for providing local access to managed content is disclosed. The method comprises receiving from a remote host a request to perform an operation with respect to content associated with a set of managed content and obtaining information required to respond to the request. The method further comprises providing... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070061326 - Receiving display station on a communication network for accessing and displaying network documents associated with a television program display in which the text stream of the tv program on the display station provides user selectable links to predetermi: An implementation comprising displaying to a user a presentation having sequences that correspond to spoken text that are not predeterminable, combined with predetermining a set of sites in a network based upon the anticipated interest of the user of the presentation and predetermining a set of key text terms respectively... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070061334 - Search query address redirection on a mobile communication facility: Improved capabilities are described for locating information using a mobile communication facility, based in part on receiving an information request from a mobile communication facility, attempting to locate the information, but not succeeding, and automatically presenting to the mobile communication facility a suggestion related to the information request.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061338 - System and method for countering abusive law enforcement and maintaining, managing and distributing information and reports regarding same: A system and method for countering abusive law enforcement comprising an Internet website having a variety of reporting options coupled with a system for investigating and minimizing abusive law enforcement acts. The present invention comprises an electronic database for cataloging instances of misconduct by law enforcement officers and agencies, online... Agent: Myers & Kaplan, Intellectual Property Law, L.L.C.

20070061341 - System and method for storing and/or accessing data: A method for storing form data is provided. The method including: displaying a form at an internet or intranet web site; allowing a user to enter data into the form; saving the data entered by the user; and indicating a date that the data was entered.... Agent: Thomas Spinelli

20070061332 - User history influenced search results: Improved mobile content presentation capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. Information relating to the user history associated with a mobile communication facility and other capabilities are employed to improve the presentation and relevance of mobile content to appropriate or desirable mobile communication facilities.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061333 - User transaction history influenced search results: Improved mobile content presentation capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. Information relating to the user transaction history associated with a mobile communication facility and other capabilities are employed to improve the presentation and relevance of mobile content to appropriate or desirable mobile communication facilities.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061344 - Converting structured reports to formulas: Data corresponding to a structured report or multi-dimensional presentation is converted to formulas within cells of a spreadsheet. The cell formulas operate on a multi-dimension database that was the data source for the structured report. Therefore the layout of the data in the cells is similar to the layout of... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070061342 - Data structures and circuit for multi-channel data transfers using a serial peripheral interface: A serial interface controller provides for transferring data between a data source having a least one channel and a processor. The serial interface controller has a plurality of control registers; the control registers in turn include a data structure for configuring the serial interface controller for a data transfer. That... Agent: John A. Thomas

20070061346 - Destination information input apparatus: In a destination information input apparatus, a storing unit previously stores destination information constructed by a predetermined character train, a character input unit receives the predetermined character/character train, a destination information searching unit searches for the destination information connected to the character/character train from the storing unit, an operation instruction... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070061345 - Extensible xml format and object model for localization data: Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media including computer-readable components for the localization of data included in software programs are described. The computer-readable components comprise data elements defined by a software data schema; a property repository data element for storing a plurality of data properties about the data elements; and an owned... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070061343 - Hierarchical property storage: A property storage structure is provided that is configured to store properties for a display object. The property storage structure includes a property object that corresponds to a property of the display object. The property storage structure is identified according to a key (e.g., the key identifies the property object... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070061348 - Method and system for identifying relationships between text documents and structured variables pertaining to the text documents: A method and system for interesting relationships in text documents includes generating a dictionary of keywords in the text documents, forming categories of the text documents using the dictionary and an automated algorithm, counting occurrences of the structured variables, categories and structured variable/category combinations in the text documents, and calculating... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070061347 - System and method for storing and aggregating data: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for tracking the use of software resources of a computer. This method identifies an instance when a particular software resource is used. It then measures and records a time period relating to the detected utilization of the software resource. In some embodiments,... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070061350 - Comment processing: Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media employing computer-readable components for localization of data included in software programs are described. The computer-readable components comprise data elements defined based on a software data schema; and an owned comment data element comprising information about the localization of the data included in the software programs... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070061349 - Hierarchically describing shapes: A hierarchical file format is provided for representing shapes associated with a graphical object. The file format is defined according to a schema. The hierarchical file format includes group properties that are applied to a group of shapes and shape properties that are applied to particular shapes. The hierarchical file... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070061351 - Shape object text: A transparent format can be used to store the content of shape objects so that documents authored by different types of applications can uniformly share information related to the shape objects. Shape objects comprise, for example, text runs that have properties such as font, style, color, size and the like.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070061355 - Computer- implemented method, system, and program product for managing data for an information technology (it) migration: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method, system, and program product for managing data for an IT migration. Specifically, the present invention provides a centralized/integrated system to receive and manage all data related to an IT migration. In addition, the present invention provides customized electronic views containing subsets of data... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070061357 - Computer-implemented process of reporting injured worker information: Predefined lists of selected variables are created and interrelated to produce incident reports. The lists are created and modified through the use of formatted computer screens or input forms, and the reports are produced through the use of formatted computer outputs or output formats. The lists include accident-related information such... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070061356 - Evaluating and generating summaries using normalized probabilities: A summary system for evaluating summaries of documents and for generating summaries of documents based on normalized probabilities of portions of the documents is provided. A summarization system generates a summary by selecting sentences for the summary based on their normalized probabilities as derived from a document model. An evaluation... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070061352 - System & method for integrative analysis of intrinsic and extrinsic audio-visual: A system is provided for integrative analysis of intrinsic and extrinsic audiovisual information, such as a system for analysis and correlation of features in a film with features not present in the film but available through the Internet. The system comprises an intrinsic content analyser communicatively connected to an audio-visual... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070061354 - System for modeling architecture for business systems and methods thereof: A system and method for generating architecture for a business system is disclosed. The method comprises, in one embodiment, modeling a plurality of viewpoints adapted for describing the architecture of the business system in form of a collection of views and viewpoints and creating a software organization viewpoint adapted for... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070061353 - User interface options of a data lineage tool: Provided are a techniques for viewing data lineage of objects. A data lineage view that includes at least one data lineage path is displayed. The data lineage view is generated by a data lineage tool that tracks an original object through processes that touched that original object. The at least... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070061360 - Common point authoring system for the complex sharing of hierarchically authored data objects in a distribution chain: The Common Point Authoring system functions to provide Livestock Informational Objects via the use of a centralized repository of uniquely identified, immutable Livestock Informational Objects. This system automates the authoring, maintenance, and distribution of the Livestock Informational Objects by using an Internet-based paradigm and a centralized repository of uniquely-identified, immutable... Agent: Patton Boggs

20070061359 - Organizing managed content for efficient storage and management: Organizing managed content for storage is disclosed. An object is linked, based at least in part on an attribute of the object, to a set of objects associated with the attribute. The objects in the set are subject to a policy a consequence of which is common to at least... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20070061358 - Workflow application having linked workflow components: The invention is a computer-implemented workflow application comprising one or more workflow components, each workflow component comprising an object having a metadata property; a workflow program comprising workflow components connected together to execute an operational workflow; a class loader program operable to introspect the objects and extract the metadata properties... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070061365 - Event participant image locating, retrieving, editing and printing system: Event participants in attendance at a plurality of different event venues can locate, edit and print images of themselves in their respective seating locations. A venue database is provided that contains data for a plurality of venues. For each venue, the venue database includes past events that occurred at the... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070061361 - Health data collection system: A health data collection system for higher quality health care is provided. A patient terminal 21 has a data processor 34 for storing, in a memory 33, vital data obtained by a vital sensor 25 and voice data inputted through a microphone 27 in a memory 33 in association with... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070061363 - Managing sponsored content based on geographic region: Improved search capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications devices such as cell phones, as well as improved techniques for delivering sponsored content in a mobile communication environment.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061367 - Method and apparatus for displaying accumulated time code in recording/reproducing of content files: A method and apparatus for displaying an accumulated time code value when content files are recorded or reproduced in succession are provided. The method of displaying an accumulated time code when content files are recorded in succession includes the steps of checking whether previously created content files exist, and, if... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070061366 - Subscription apparatus and method: The present invention relates to a web-based software application, in which a server at a publisher compiles a predetermined list of items, such as regulatory, contract, budgeting, and legal issues, and stores them for periodic download to a client. The client would subscribe to the publisher, to receive information on... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070061368 - System and method for issue-centric communications management: An issue-centric information management system for facilitating and increasing the efficiency of a communications department by providing a comprehensive and robust methodology to track all activity that relates to a corporate communications issues, public affairs issues, investor relations issues, or other sets of issues affecting a group of cooperating individuals.... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070061364 - System and method for text-based searching of media content: A method, computer program product and computing device for receiving a text search request from a user. A text datastore is searched using the text search request to identify a matching text data file/segment chosen from a plurality of text data files/segments. At least one media data file associated with... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070061362 - Vehicle identification tracking system: A method of assigning identification to and tracking objects comprises transmitting a unique identification for an object and a description of the object from a remote location to an approval location, and creating an approval code based on the unique identification and the object description. The method then includes recording... Agent: Delio & Peterson

20070061373 - Avoiding duplicative storage of managed content: Avoiding duplicative storage of managed content is disclosed. It is determined whether content associated with an object has been stored previously in an associated one of a plurality of storage locations used to store managed content with which the object is associated. If it is determined that the content has... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20070061371 - Data customization for data of disparate data types: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for data customization for disparate data types including receiving aggregation preferences from a user, receiving synthesis preferences from a user, aggregating data of disparate data types from disparate data sources in dependence upon the aggregation preferences, and synthesizing the aggregated data of disparate data... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070061370 - Data retrieval methods: Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, methods of retrieving information from a data storage device previously deactivated by modification or degradation of at least a portion of the data storage device are disclosed.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070061374 - Device and method for restricting display of history: A device that performs processing upon receiving a request from a terminal, which includes: a processing information storage unit that stores information relating to the processing; a processing history generating unit that generates a history of the processing based on the information relating to the processing stored in the processing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070061377 - Document management system and control method thereof: There is provided a document management system and a control method thereof which can realize a preferred workflow by setting a state of a document stored in a folder and a device control at the change of the state, with respect to the folder. To accomplish this, the document management... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070061372 - Dynamic update mechanisms in operating systems: To dynamically update an operating system, a new factory object may have one or more new and/or updated object instances. A corresponding old factory object is then located and its version is checked for compatibility. A dynamic update procedure is then executed, which includes (a) changing a factory reference pointer... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070061376 - Image management apparatus: An image management apparatus storing an input primary image and a replay-use reduced image corresponding to the input image comprises a first storage medium; a first database makeup unit for making up first database information for identifying a group to which the reduced image belongs when recording the primary image... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070061378 - Method and apparatus for managing multimedia content stored in digital multimedia device: A method and apparatus are provided for automatically selecting and deleting unimportant content in order to secure a storage space in a digital multimedia device. The multimedia content is classified into content in which a storage period is set and content in which a storage period is not set and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070061375 - System and method for managing a plurality of database systems: A system for managing a plurality of database systems, the system including an interface for obtaining data indicative of one or more operational characteristics of each of the managed database systems, such as CPU usage, query response times and performance statistics; and a monitor that is responsive to the data... Agent: James M. Stover Intellectual Property Section, Law Department

20070061369 - User interface for creating a spreadsheet data summary table: A graphical user interface for creating a data summary table includes a field pane including a list of a plurality of fields, and a layout pane including a plurality of zones. The zones represent areas of the data summary table, and the layout pane allows a field of the plurality... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070061380 - Finer grained point-to-point event propagation: A method and apparatus for propagating and managing data, transactions and events either within a database, or from one database to another is provided. In one embodiment, messages are propagated from a source to a first queue and a second queue with the queues associated with the same database. The... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070061379 - Method and apparatus for sequencing transactions globally in a distributed database cluster: A system and method for receiving and tracking a plurality of transactions and distributing the transactions to at least two replication queues over a network. The system and method comprise a global queue for storing a number of the received transactions in a first predetermined order. The system and method... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Suite 1600

20070061381 - Methods, systems and computer program products for managing user information across multiple devices associated with the user: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for managing user information across multiple devices associated with the user. A master version of user information that is accessible by two or more devices associated with the user is provided. The user information may be updated at one of the two... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070061382 - Real-time synchronization of xml data between applications: One or more data stores are maintained separately from a primary presentation storage within a document for storing, relating and for allowing use of arbitrary data that is associated with a computer-generated document between multiple data consumers. The data store exposes application programming interfaces (APIs) to the various pieces of... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070061383 - Fault recovery for transaction server: A primary server transmits a write transaction to N backup devices. Each backup device records the write transaction to a local redo log stored at a high-performance storage and then transmits a notification to the primary device. When the primary device receives notifications from M of the N backup devices,... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070061384 - Multi-versioned documents and method for creation and use thereof: The optimal version of a document can depend on the user's need and the presentation device, and can govern choices of content as well as style. The content needed for multiple versions of a document can be included in a single document structure and identified by means of tags or... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070061386 - Method, system and program product for performing an integrated information technology (it) migration and inventory information collection: Under the present invention, an IT migration and corresponding information collection are conducted in a single visit. A directory such as an electronic mail directory of an organization (i.e., for which the IT migration is being performed) is first analyzed to identify contacts (e.g., employees) for the IT migration. Then,... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070061385 - System to manage and store backup and recovery meta data: A system to manage backup and recovery meta data. A database (54) including a schema (70) having a file table (72), a backup table (74), and a link table (76) stores the backup and recovery meta data. A computerized console portal system (30) then accepts instruction regarding the meta data... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070055644 - Global dynamic variable storage for sql procedures: A method and system for using a procedure residing and executed entirely within a database system is disclosed. The procedure utilizes at least one variable, which has a plurality of attributes. The method and system include defining the at least one variable as at least one global variable prior to... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070055643 - Information reproduction device and method and program: An information reproduction device includes; a player module 2 for reproducing, in response to a reproduction command in page information received, content data included in the page information; a browser 1 for outputting the page information along with the content data returned to the player module 2; and a database... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070055642 - Method of managing websites registered in search engine and a system thereof: The present invention relates to a search engine that provides information on a predetermined website on the Internet. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of managing websites registered in a search engine in a search engine administration system, comprising the steps of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070055645 - Storage resource scan: Various information about storage resources in a UNIX or UNIX derivative operating system computing environment is gathered from various sources in response to scan requests. Where a given type of information for a given storage resource is gathered from multiple sources, the information is verified for consistency, and placed in... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti Pc

20070055646 - Augmenting user, query, and document triplets using singular value decomposition: A system for augmenting click-through data with latent information present in the click-through data for use in generating search results that are better tailored to the information needs of a user submitting a query is provided. The augmentation system creates a three-dimensional matrix with the dimensions of users, queries, and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070055648 - Contents presenting apparatus, method and program: The contents presenting apparatus comprises: a registering device which registers user information that is specific to a user; a judging device which judges user interface attributes which are suited to the user, according to the user information registered in the registering device; a producing device which produces contents having the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20070055647 - Dynamic class inheritance and distributed caching with object <->relational mapping and cartesian model support in a database manipulation and mapping system: The present invention provides a system and method for dynamic object-driven database manipulation and mapping system which relates in general to correlating or translating one type of database to another type of database or to an object programming application. Correlating or translating involves relational to object translation, object to object... Agent: Lev Intellectual Property Consulting

20070055649 - Information search device, input supporting device, method, and program: An input supporting device, which supports a user's input in the case where an information search is not progressing, so that the user can promptly obtain a result of the search, and includes: an input unit that receives an input of a search keyword; a search progress management unit that... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20070055651 - Apparatus and method for search support: A search support apparatus that makes it easy to search for an object and communicate with a communication apparatus which manages the object. In this apparatus, when control section 105 receives object information from demodulation section 102a, it reads object information (search conditions) registered in object information section 103b in... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070055656 - Knowledge repository: A knowledge storage system is described. A specific embodiment is a computer system comprising a knowledge base of general knowledge in structured form which can be added to and queried by untrained users. Various embodiments include the facility for remote computers to access the knowledge stored in the system, natural... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070055650 - Query caching in a system with a content directory service: A caching device (70) queries (203a) the CDS of a serving device (MS-a) for media content information and stores the results (204a) for later retrieval. The query (203a) can be made in response to receiving a request (202) from a querying device (UI, 21) to perform the query or in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070055655 - Selective schema matching: A system that automatically matches schema elements is provided. In one aspect, given a selected element of one schema, the system can calculate the best matching candidate elements of another schema. The calculation can be based on a heuristic combination of factors, such as element names, element types, schema structure,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070055652 - Speculative search result for a search query: Providing a speculative search result for a search query prior to completion of the search query. In response to receiving a search query from a client node, a speculative search result is provided to the client node for the search query prior to receiving an indication from the client node... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070055653 - System and method of generating automated document analysis tools: A method of generating an automated document analyst is disclosed and includes receiving a plurality of source documents including text strings and performing an automated computer executable build operation on the plurality of source documents with respect to at least one target field associated with data to be extracted from... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070055657 - System for generating and managing context information: An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of generating or managing context information in a manner useable or editable by an information management system. The context information describing the context in which a search task is performed is used to generate information useful to a user.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070055654 - Techniques and graphical user interfaces for improved media item searching: Improved techniques and graphical user interfaces that assist users in searching through a group of media items are disclosed. According to one aspect, a search assistant (e.g., search bar) can be graphically presented to a user to assist the user in selecting search criteria. In one embodiment, the search assistant... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070055661 - Compile-time optimizations of queries with sql spreadsheet: Described herein are optimizations and execution strategies for spreadsheet extensions to SQL. The partitioning of data, as specified in a spreadsheet clause, provides a way to parallelize the computation of spreadsheet and to provide and improve scalability. Even if the partitioning is not explicitly specified in the spreadsheet clause, the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070055658 - Efficient access control enforcement in a content management environment: Provided is a system and method for optimizing CM through application-level optimization by exploiting the specific semantics of access control. Access control is enforced by rewriting user or application queries to include additional predicates. Portions of a complex CM query that are identified as those that will return an empty... Agent: Lacasse & Associates, Llc

20070055659 - Excerpt retrieval system: A selection extender instructs a data retrieval system to identify an excerpt demarcated by a first and last symbol. Generic destination indicators identify digital destinations with which an excerpt can be associated. An information record can be provided with a selection extender and/or generic destination indicators thereon. An input device... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070055660 - System and method for anticipatory downloading of data: A system and method for intelligent computer-implemented downloading of up-to-date information at times when access to data connections are available to improve user efficiency. The system assesses data relevance, calculates the amount of time available for data connections, and prioritizes data downloads based on information relevance, file sizes, download times... Agent: Deere & Company

20070055662 - Method and apparatus for learning, recognizing and generalizing sequences: A method of generalizing a dataset having a plurality of sequences defined over a lexicon of tokens is provided. The method comprises: searching over the dataset for similarity sets, where each similarity set comprises a plurality of segments of size L having L−S common tokens and S uncommon tokens; and... Agent: Martin Moynihan Prtsi Inc

20070055664 - Pipeline sequential regular expression matching: Regular expression matching is performed on a sequence of characters using a pipeline architecture of regular expression matching stages. Multiple regular expression matching stages are connected together in a pipeline manner, with each of these regular expression matching stages corresponding to a different portions of the regular expression. These stages... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20070055663 - Programmatic response for detected variants of http requests: A method and system to programmatically respond to detected variants associated with requests are provided. Data files are generated to respond to subsequent instances for the requests. Each request is checked to determine the variants. A combination of variants included in each request specifies a response type. Flat files are... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070055665 - Sequential pattern extracting apparatus: Constraining sequential data expressing sequential data which a sequential pattern to be extracted must include is specified in advance. Sequential pattern candidates with sequence length 1 are initially determined from among a plurality of input sequential data. Next, a set of sequential pattern candidates is generated by determining a plurality... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070055669 - Availability data service: Real time availability data (free/busy data) is provided for potential meeting attendees and/or assets. An availability service is queried for availability data for one or more attendees and/or meeting assets. The availability service determines the identity of an electronic mailbox server on which is stored current real time calendaring data... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070055667 - Method and apparatus for facilitating privileged object stores in a database: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates implementing a privileged schema in a database, wherein the privileged schema is comprised of a set of database objects. Note that in relational database terminology, sometimes object stores are simply referred to as schema. The system starts by creating... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070055668 - Online customer support system: An online customer support system (20) automates access for a user to a variety of types of information (24-31) maintained within a database (22). In a disclosed example, a dynamic user profile management module (50) automatically establishes a user profile including entitlements to sets of information within the database (22)... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c.

20070055666 - Personalisation: A method and apparatus are provided for use in enabling a user to access online services of a type requiring certain types of personal data to be supplied to respective service providers. An apparatus is provided having a store for storing profile data for use both by users and by... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20070055674 - Data server, data management method, and data management system: A data server which partially constitutes a data management system in cooperation with another data server connected via a network, the data server having: a data management section that stores a data item; a user authentication section that performs user authentication; a searching section that searches the data management section... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070055675 - Information processing device, control method therefor, data processing apparatus connectable with information processing device, and program for causing computer to execute the control method: An information processing device capable of determining, before installation of an application program in the information processing device or start of the program, whether operation of the application program is guaranteed for a data processing apparatus connected with the information processing device, thus preventing the application program from being used... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070055672 - Location based access to financial information systems and methods: Systems, methods, and software for identifying location based rules related to a network connected device are described. A network connected device may transmit a set of data identifying the location of the device and an identifier unique to the device to a server. The server may also receive an action... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070055671 - Method and system for remotely updating a status of a data record: A method and system for updating, from a client computing unit, a data record of a database. Initial and target statuses of the data record are obtained. A list of identifiers is automatically determined to identify actions in a sequence that, when executed, updates the data record from the initial... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070055670 - System and method of extracting knowledge from documents: A method of managing documents is provided and includes receiving a plurality of documents, normalizing each of the plurality of documents, and categorizing each of the plurality of documents to identify a document type. Further, the method includes selecting at least one automated text-based document analyst from a library system... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070055673 - Verified personal credit search system and method thereof: A verified personal credit search system includes an information center, a credit terminal and an enquiring station. The information center includes a personal database for storing a plurality of personal records of candidates, wherein each of the personal records contains a plurality of personal qualities. The credit terminal which includes... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20070055676 - Web service providing apparatus, web service requesting apparatus, and method of the same: A web service providing apparatus and a web service requesting apparatus that use an inheritable web service by including access modifiers and inheritance relationships for domains, functions, and services in a WSDL for the web service and by referring to the access modifiers and the inheritance relationships, and method of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20070055681 - Administrative notes in network-based commerce facility: Some embodiments provide a method and a system for generating an administrative note associated with a network-based commerce facility, associating an administrator-selected aspect of the network-based commerce facility with the administrative note, and storing the administrative note.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070055679 - Data expansion method and data processing method for structured documents: A structured document expansion method converted a structured document into a format enabling easy manipulation by an application. A structured document is expanded into a format for easy manipulation without requiring complex knowledge. A two-stage associative array structure is adopted to enable easy manipulation of various types of data spanning... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070055678 - Ims soap gateway deployment utility: Various embodiments of a computer-implemented method, system and article of manufacture enable an application to be accessed as a web service. In response to a command, a web service is deployed to a gateway server, and a connection bundle and a correlator file are provided such that they are accessible... Agent: International Business Machines Corp Ip Law

20070055677 - Information device: An improper file operation that loses the conformity of data in specific directories conformed to an application standard is prevented. There are provided directory/file information obtaining unit for obtaining directory information stored in a mounted recording medium, list information coincidence judging unit 14 for judging whether a directory name of... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070055680 - Method and system for creating a taxonomy from business-oriented metadata content: A method and system is provided for managing business taxonomy. The system comprises an indexing engine for indexing content of source business oriented metadata. The indexing engine has a content scanner for reading the business oriented metadata, defining taxonomy of the business oriented metadata, and building a content index of... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070055682 - Rhetorical content management system and methods: The present disclosure is directed generally to a method of content management. The method includes receiving a user input entered in a plurality of grammatical structured text entry elements associated with a content subject, each of the plurality of grammatical structured text entry elements having a rhetorical structure to facilitate... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070055684 - Location based information for emergency services systems and methods: Systems, methods, and software for identifying location based rules related to a network connected device are described. A network connected device may transmit a set of data identifying the location of the device and an identifier unique to the device to a server. The server may also receive an action... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070055683 - User prompt for loading sound in a computer resource: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for transmitting a computer resource to a computing device, wherein the computer resource includes at least one audio content. A visual display is presented, on the computing device, that offers options to accept and receive the computer resource with or without the at least... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070055688 - Automatic report generation: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method, system, and program product for automatically generating reports. Specifically, the present invention allows report data about project tasks and scheduling to be mapped from a first application format (e.g., Microsoft Project) to a spreadsheet format using a data translation map. Once mapped to... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20070055689 - Content indexing and searching using content identifiers and associated metadata: A method of indexing content for network searching comprises identifying media content signals stored at sites distributed over a distributed computer network; extracting content identifiers from the content signals; using the content identifiers to obtain metadata used to classify the media content signals; and creating a searchable index of the... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070055690 - Flows for variable-data printing: A method, system and a computer program product for generating and printing documents 100, 110, 120 from a variable-data printing document template 130 comprising a layout of document portions 150, at least one of the document portions 150 comprising a flow that contains content which is variable in response to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070055691 - Method and system for managing exemplar terms database for business-oriented metadata content: An example management system comprises an indexing engine, an index store and an example engine. The indexing engine indexes content of source business oriented metadata. The indexing engine has a content scanner for reading the business oriented metadata, and building a content index of the business oriented metadata. The index... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070055687 - System and method for minimizing data outage time and data loss while handling errors detected during recovery: A system, method and a computer usable medium tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a computer-based method for restoration of a database from a failed data recovery. For each failed data recovery the method generates a log error data set having log records of... Agent: Sandra M. Parker Law Office Of Sandra M. Parker

20070055685 - Telecommunications terminal with multiple display modes: An apparatus and a method are disclosed for handling multiple display modes, such as column-first and row-first display modes. In particular, a telecommunications terminal receives a computer file (e.g., an HTML-encoded file, etc.) from a content server. The computer file comprises a data-ordering tag, in accordance with the illustrative embodiment... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20070055686 - Tracking physical inventory of data storage media: The invention is directed to a business technique for supplying customers with a set of data storage media and a database for tracking physical inventory of the set of data storage media. The media tracking database is generated by the media supplier from a proprietary manufacturer database that stores a... Agent: Attention: Eric D. Levinson Imation Corp.

20070055693 - Data recovery method: A method of ordering a plurality of database object scripts, the method comprising the steps of: parsing the plurality of object scripts to obtain dependency information representing dependencies between the associated objects; and analysing the dependency information to determine a sequence in which to execute the object scripts.... Agent: Ukitlaw.com

20070055692 - Incremental approach to an object-relational solution: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate an incremental approach to an Object-Relational mapping solution. The architecture can provide a rich data model that is defined at the value layer. The rich data model can expose an interface that conforms with the interfaces exposed by common... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070055698 - Building automation system data management: A building automation system (BAS). In one embodiment, the BAS comprises a database and a relational directory. The database is adapted to store data definitions. The relational directory includes data definitions for the BAS, stored in the database, and includes a site level, a system level, a device level, and... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20070055697 - Generating and monitoring a multimedia database: A computer readable medium and method to generate a multimedia database that represents a collection of files having different file extensions is provided. The method includes receiving the collection of files from a file system, extracting and storing metadata in multimedia objects stored in the multimedia database. The metadata includes... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070055700 - Method and apparatus for selecting and playing multimedia file playable in embedded device: An embedded device includes a content organizer receiving a header containing information on a multimedia file and extracting information required for playing the multimedia file from the header, a database storing the extracted information for each multimedia file, and a decoding unit playing the multimedia file based on the information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20070055699 - Photo image retrieval system and program: A photo image retrieval system that stores a plurality of photo images and a plurality of text data, and extracts and displays any of the photo images using an input retrieval sentence as an index. The system includes: a photo image database that records data of the photo images together... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070055694 - System and method for providing a unified customer feedback solution: A method for providing a system for allowing businesses to manage substantially all of their customer relations and feedback on a computer network via a Customer Feedback System, where the method includes providing a software framework supporting multiple client modules, enabling/disabling client modules individually, maintaining a set of client modules,... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20070055695 - System and method for semantic video segmentation based on joint audiovisual and text analysis: System and method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units where each semantic unit relates to a generally complete thematic topic. A computer implemented method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units wherein each semantic unit relates to a theme or a topic, comprises... Agent: Duke. W. Yee

20070055696 - System and method of extracting and managing knowledge from medical documents: A method of managing medical documents is provided and includes receiving a plurality of medical documents and normalizing each of the plurality of medical documents. Further, the method includes selecting at least one automated text-based medical document analyst from a library system based on a specified context and/or a medical... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070055707 - Control of policies for setting file associations when configuring information handling systems: A file association recommendation function which when a user tries to execute a certain type of file such a multimedia file (e.g., a MP3 type file or JPG type file) for which there is no file association, a file association recommendation module is invoked that presents application recommendations to the... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070055702 - Metadata offload for a file server cluster: A file server system has a cluster of server computers that share access to a file system in shared storage. One of the server computers has primary responsibility for management of access to the file system. In order to reduce the possibility of primary server overload when a large number... Agent: Richard Auchterlonie Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20070055701 - Method and telecommunications node for information synchronization: A method and telecommunications node for synchronising the content of a first node database such as for example of a Manager Management Information Base (MIB) with another node's database, such as for example an Agent MIB. The first node sends a synchronization request to the second node indicating the time... Agent: Alex Nicolaescu Ericsson Canada Inc.

20070055706 - Method of performing snap imaging using data temperature for making anticipatory copies: A technique for use in performing snap imaging of a plurality of data objects and associated metadata involves placing the plurality of data objects in a consistent state. While the data objects are in a consistent state, a copy is created of the metadata associated with the plurality of data... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070055703 - Namespace server using referral protocols: A namespace server translates client requests for access to files referenced by pathnames in a client-server namespace into requests for access to files referenced by pathnames in a NAS network namespace. The namespace server also translates between different file access protocols. If a client supports redirection and is requesting access... Agent: Richard Auchterlonie Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20070055704 - Storage system and storage system control method: The present invention uses the storage resources of a storage system effectively, thereby reducing the cost of the storage system and improving its usability. The storage system comprises a first storage apparatus and a second storage apparatus. When a host writes data to a virtual volume, the data are written... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20070055705 - System and method for on-demand integrated archive repository: System, method and computer program product for creating, managing, and accessing an information repository including a source database and an archive database. A source database and the archive database are defined to a same schema. A user terminal presents a common user interface for accessing the source database and the... Agent: Shelley M. Beckstrand Patent Attorney

20070055709 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing epg information between server and client: A method and apparatus for synchronizing EPG information between a server and a client in a digital broadcasting network are provided. The server updates synchronization files according to information which is modified after a last synchronization file is created according to the update of the server-side EPG information, creates a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20070055708 - Processing formulae in rules for profitability calculations for financial processing in a relational database management system: A Value Analyzer system is a data-driven computer-facilitated financial model that provides accurate and consistent profitability calculations using account, product and event attributes stored in a relational database managed by a relational database management system (RDBMS). Profitability calculations are performed in the computer by applying one or more rules to... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070055710 - Block snapshots over iscsi: A snapshot of the data of a block storage resource is taken and made available over a network via iSCSI. The snapshot can be either read-only or read-write.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti Pc

20070055711 - Generic rootkit detector: A generic RootKit detector is disclosed that identifies when a malware, commonly known as RootKit, is resident on a computer. In one embodiment, the generic RootKit detector performs a method that compares the properties of different versions of a library used by the operating system to provide services to an... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20070055712 - Asynchronous replication of data: In a data processing environment, data is replicated to a remote or secondary storage device in a manner which reduces the adverse performance effects and inefficient bandwidth usage imposed by the conventional one-transaction-at-a-time process. Transactions to be transferred are grouped by a replication manager by selecting transactions having start times... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, Pc - Ibm

20070055713 - Computer system, storage system and method for extending volume capacity: The object of the present invention is to prevent distribution of a storage range to a volume from an inappropriate disk drive comparing with use of the volume as a result of an automatic extension of a volume capacity. A computer system has a storage system including a physical storage... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070055716 - Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for managing replication of back-up object: Replication data acquired by a copy and a volume storing therein this replication data are flexibly managed in response to the needs of a user depending on the attributes of a file which becomes the target of the copy executed by a storage apparatus. More concretely, when receiving an instruction... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20070055714 - Migration system for confirming worm retention term: Provided is a computer system, which executes migration after confirming that a retention term of an information resource stored in the computer system can be guaranteed at a migration destination. In a storage system including a control module, a disk drive for storing data, and a time information module for... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20070055715 - Storage system, file migration method and computer program product: A storage system including a file migration server, a file migration client, and an LDEV migration engine. The file migration client displays on a management terminal a GUI for guiding a file migration. The file migration server, upon receipt of a file migration command to migrate a part of files... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070050323 - Abstractly mapped physical data fields: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for managing access to an abstract database are provided. The abstract database may include a data abstraction model comprising a plurality of logical field definitions, each of the definitions comprising a logical field name, and an access method maps the logical field to... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070050322 - Associating conditions to summary table data: A method and system associate conditional formats with selected data points or groups of data points within a summary table. In one embodiment, related groups of data are determined based upon currently highlighted cells in a summary table. A user then selects from the groups and identifies conditional formats to... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070050319 - Data retrieval apparatus: Data retrieval apparatus comprises a base unit e.g. a geographic globe having a surface bearing a set of index information, and a pen-like operator separate from and co-operable wirelessly with the globe. The operator has a sensor for sensing the index information when it is brought close to the globe... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070050326 - Data storage method and data storage structure: A data storage method and a data storage structure are provided. In one aspect, a method of storing data includes setting a first data node in a first storage area; setting a second data node in a second storage area; wherein said second data node is an element of a... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20070050325 - Information processing apparatus: A disclosed information processing apparatus includes: a selection recognizing unit configured to recognize an electronic file being selected; a past history storing unit configured to store information on operations performed on an electronic file as past history information in association with information on the electronic file; a reference user selecting... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070050320 - Method and system for mapping context name space binding lookups: The Binding Mismatch Mapper (BMM) responds to reference lookup errors by searching for the mismatched binding and mapping the reference in an XML file. The Binding Mismatch Mapper (BMM) comprises a URL cache generator (UCG), a lookup error monitor (LEM), a search component (SC), and a mapping component (MC). The... Agent: Ibm Corp. (raleigh Software Group) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070050324 - Method for operating a database: A method for operating a database containing personal information includes checking the content of a message sent via a telecommunication network for the presence of personal information. If personal information is found, then the personal information is extracted from the message, the extracted information is associated with at least one... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070050321 - Padding management for content files: Described is the adding of padding to a content file (e.g., image and/or audiovisual file) for anticipated subsequent use such that the content file need not be re-encoded to add metadata and other data to it. For example, padding may be added to an image file directly after an image... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070050327 - System and method for integrated datamart data processing: Disclosed is a data collection and analysis system that is capable of extracting data from various disparate sources, i.e., contact channels, storing the data and analyzing the data to show trends in the business operation. The data is stored in a data model that uses a star schema approach to... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070050328 - Query routing of federated information systems for fast response time, load balance, availability, and reliability: Disclosed are embodiments of a system for optimizing query processing in a federated information system. The system may be used to identify alternative query plans in a simulated environment and to calculate cost estimates associated with the alternative query plans, based not only on database statistics and query statements, but... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070050330 - Self-healing rdbms optimizer: A method, computer program product, and system for triggering an update of statistics data used by a query optimizer of a relational database management system for determining an optimal execution plan for executing a received query request on a relational database is provided. A system dependent nominal performance value for... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070050329 - Storage system and storage apparatus: A storage system has a host system and a storage apparatus. The storage apparatus includes a first volume and a second volume to store files transmitted from the host system. The host system has: a display unit for displaying the content of a first directory in the first volume and... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070050333 - Archive indexing engine: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for archiving data from a database. One method includes identifying a data record to be archived; determining the contents of an archive record, the archive record having values for a first plurality of attributes in the data record; storing the archive record in... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070050339 - Biasing queries to determine suggested queries: Applying a bias when determining a suggested search query. Examples of biases that can be applied include, but are not limited to, temporal biases and monetization biases. Temporal biasing involves increasing a weight associated with a search query, based on a temporal attribute associated with the query. Search queries may... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070050346 - Enabling a search for both local and remote electronic content: A search for content may be performed. A query may be received from a user who is interacting with a first device. A first collection of content that is stored on the first device may be searched to identify local content that is related to the query. A second collection... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070050335 - Information searching apparatus and method with mechanism of refining search results: An information searching apparatus and method capable of producing good search results even in the case where specified search keywords are found separately on a plurality of documents. Upon receipt of a search request from a client, a first search process searches an index memory to find tentative search results.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070050344 - Method and apparatus for presenting computerized search results in a medical information system: A method and system for providing computer search results in connection with a medical information resource that has a plurality of stored medical topic documents. A user may provide a search request and in response have one or more medical topic documents in the medical information resource identified in a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070050332 - Method and apparatus for providing a comparative product information of related products: The disclosure relates to a method and a system for conducting local or global searches for industrial equipment information and providing search reports that not only identifies the corresponding products but also provide a meaningful comparison among the identified products. In an embodiment, the system receives a search inquiry from... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070050337 - Method and system for dynamically processing ambiguous, reduced text search queries and highlighting results thereof: A method and system are provided of processing a search query entered by a user of a device having a text input interface with overloaded keys. The search query is directed at identifying an item from a set of items. Each of the items has a name including one or... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070050340 - Method, system, and program for an improved enterprise spatial system: Disclosed is a method, system, and program for providing access to spatial data. A request for data is received. Enterprise and third party data are integrated. The integrated data is processed. Spatially referenced results are generated using the processed data. The spatially referenced results are returned in response to the... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP

20070050338 - Mobile sitemaps: A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070050345 - Personalized library interface for providing data to a user: A personalized library interface that can be modified by a user and provides and that allows access to one or more data sets. A user indicates search strategies, and access to stored preselections is provided. Depending on user indication, the user is provided with information relevant to the search strategy... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070050331 - Priority based ldap service publication mechanism: A method and system are provided for directing a client to a preferred service instance. At creation of a service instance, the service binding attribute of the created instance is extended to include assigned domains and associated priorities. There are then two phases to directing a client to the preferred... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070050342 - Real estate listing and advertising system: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes receiving real estate listings by submission at a website. Also, the method includes receiving a search query from a user at a user website. Further, the method includes presenting real estate listings responsive to the search query on the user... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070050343 - Semantic-based query techniques for source code: A powerful set of features can assist software developers in searching source code. Source code can be queried to find occurrences of source code elements mapped to domain concepts appearing in an ontology. Queries can specify a search for occurrences of particular operations performed on domain concepts within the source... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070050336 - System, program product, and methods to enhance media content management: Embodiments of systems, program products, and methods to enhance and more effectively manage media content are provided. An embodiment of a system, for example, can include a first preselected network framework defining a first network stage and a second preselected network framework responsive to the first network stage and defining... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070050341 - Triggering applications for distributed action execution and use of mixed media recognition as a control input: A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium. In one embodiment... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070050334 - Word indexing in a capture system: Searching of objects captured by a capture system can be improved by eliminating irrelevant objects from a query. In one embodiment, the present invention includes receiving such a query for objects captured by a capture system, the query including at least one search term. This search term is then hashed... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070050351 - Alternative search query prediction: Providing an alternative search query to a predicted search query is disclosed herein. A search query is received from a client node. Prior to receiving an indication from the client node that the search query is completely formed, the following steps are performed: 1) a predicted search query is determined... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070050350 - Information apparatus connected to information terminal having a plurality of applications installed thereinto, control method of the same, and program product: An information apparatus is connected to an information terminal having an application for accessing information installed thereinto. The information apparatus accesses stored information based on an access request from the information terminal using the application, and stores at least one of the application and a function of the application used... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070050349 - Object storage and synchronization hooks for occassionally-connected devices: A system may include an application programming interface (API) layer, a cache layer, and an object storage/access layer. The API layer may expose an interface to store a business object and an interface to retrieve the business object, and may transmit a request to store the business object and a... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070050348 - Programmatic query assistance: The subject disclosure pertains to coding assistance based on context and user preference. Assistance can be provided to facilitate specifying queries and more particularly query comprehension specification. Programmatic support can include but is not limited to providing type information for collections in scope, automatic keyword and/or query clause generation, error... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070050347 - Query comprehensions: The subject disclosure pertains to interaction with one or more collections of data. Queries and domains are presented as separate entities. A number of compositional operators are provided to manipulate a generic collection of data at a low level. Query comprehensions can specify interactions with one or more collections at... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070050352 - System and method for providing autocomplete query using automatic query transform: A method and system for providing an auto complete query is provided, and more particularly, a method and system for providing an auto complete query, which can classify a query log according to at least one index, record the classified query log for each of the at least one index,... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070050353 - Information synthesis engine: A method of generating a report from multiple sources includes obtaining a topic based on input queries relating to the topic, obtaining information about the topic from the multiple sources, where the information includes excerpts from the multiple sources that meet one or more criteria, and generating the report using... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070050354 - Method and system for matching socially and epidemiologically compatible mates: A system, method, and service for computer moderated matchmaking in which at least one final candidate is selected from a plurality of potential candidates based upon both social compatibility and epidemiological compatibility determinations made with respect to a user. In some embodiments communication is selectively facilitated between the user and... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070050356 - Query construction for semantic topic indexes derived by non-negative matrix factorization: A method, apparatus and machine-readable medium analyze documents processed by non-negative matrix factorization in accordance with semantic topics. Users construct queries by assigning weights to semantic topics to order documents within a set. The query may be refined in accordance with the user's evaluation of the efficacy of the query.... Agent: Nath & Associates PLLC

20070050355 - Search system for providing information of keyword input frequency by category and method thereof: The present disclosure relates to a search service system and a method thereof, and more particularly, relates to a search service system capable of providing an input ranking of a keyword which is input into the search service system, according to a category to which the keyword belongs, and a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070050357 - Distributed reservoir sampling for web applications: Random samples without replacement are extracted from a distributed set of items by leveraging techniques for aggregating sampled subsets of the distributed set. This provides a uniform random sample without replacement representative of the distributed set, allowing statistical information to be gleaned from extremely large sets of distributed information. Subset... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070050359 - Method to indicate context synchronization of applications on a computer desktop: The present disclosure is directed to a method to indicate context synchronization of applications on a computer desktop that polls information from disparate applications and provides an indication of whether or not the information is synchronized. The disclosure uses an application located on each workstation that performs the “polling” and... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070050358 - Search technique for design patterns in java source code: The present invention is directed to a computerized method for identifying at least one pattern in source code. The method includes the step of parsing the source code to obtain data corresponding to at least one source code class. A plurality of search units are provided, each search unit being... Agent: Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070050360 - Triggering applications based on a captured text in a mixed media environment: A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070050361 - Method for the discovery, ranking, and classification of computer files: A method for ranking files on a computer system that at least includes: establishing a catalog of at least a portion of computer files, establishing a plurality of ranking policies, choosing a plurality of threshold values for taxonomic classification; for each file encountered, determine the total weight with respect to... Agent: Eyhab Al-masri

20070050362 - Portable authentication and access control involving multiple identities: A method and system for protecting electronic files by applying a portable access control lock to each electronic file while allowing multi-user access to the protected electronic files across a distributed network is described. The portable access control lock is adapted for implementing a set of complex access control rules... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070050369 - Accessing file under confinement: A method of launching an application in a computer system, the method comprising launching the application in a restricted user account, intercepting at least one request for an operation on a file, the at least one request comes from launching the application, determining whether the at least one file operation... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070050368 - Document distribution system and method: Even if a document file within a document management system has been transmitted outside the system by E-mail, a document management system maintains a document-file access rights equivalent to that within the document management system. The document distribution system distributes document files the access rights of which are managed by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070050365 - Management of user data: A method and arrangements for managing user data stored in a database of a communications system where the database is managed by a main controller is disclosed. In the method a user is first authenticated, where after an application entity can manage user data in the database that associates with... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070050363 - Modeling of heterogeneous multi-technology networks and services by method of translation of domain-focused user information model to common information model: A domain-focused User Information Model (UIM) generating methodology automatically translates conventional resource terminology employed by a user in his everyday relationships with a managed system of interest into associated functional operators within the realm of the Common Information Model (CIM), so that the CIM is generated, yet the user ‘views’... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A. 1401 Citrus Center

20070050367 - System and method for controlling database access: A system to controls access to a database, including: an acquiring section which acquires an access program including a plurality of database access instructions; a detecting section which detects a plurality of different tables in the database that are accessed by the plurality of access instructions; a join control section... Agent: Richard M. Goldman

20070050364 - System, method, and software for implementing business rules in an entity: In certain embodiments, a method for implementing one or more business rules in an entity includes receiving a database operation corresponding to one or more database components of one or more operational databases and invoking, in response to receiving the database operation, a rule evaluation service. The rule evaluation service... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070050366 - System, program product, and methods to enhance media content management: Embodiments of systems, program products, and methods to enhance and more effectively manage media content are provided. An embodiment of a method, for example, can include analyzing a user assigned role to allow access to specific data in a database in response to the user assigned role, capturing and storing... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070050375 - Extended http error channel: Techniques for clients and servers to use the web authoring extensions, and in particular, extended error handling to allow servers to provider richer web authoring error information to clients.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070050371 - Interacting with an online database through a variety of communications media: A method for interacting with an online database through a variety of communications methods is described. Using e-mail programs, instant messaging applications, or SMS for mobile devices, a user of an online service composes and sends a language-based text message to an online service. A user services application implemented by... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070050377 - Method or apparatus for locking shared data: A method and apparatus is disclosed in which locks for shared data are acquired by specifying a pathname for the shared data.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070050370 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing the deployment of a reader network infrastructure: Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing deployment of a reader network infrastructure are provided. The method includes searching a database of records for a location corresponding with an event. The searching is performed in response to receiving a query for information relating to the event. The records link... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070050374 - Novel intelligent search engine: A novel intelligent search engine or website are invented to enhance the web surfing practice. A smart search engine or website comprising of resource database, fuzzy logic analyzer, and question generator which can analyze the user input, comparing with internal criteria, and asking user further questions to narrow down the... Agent: Fang Zhao

20070050378 - Pin point searching map document input and output device and pin point searching map document input and output method of the device: A pin point searching map document input and output device connected to a network and using a plurality of communication protocols, the pin point searching map document input and output device communicating documents in various data forms with a plurality of information devices includes a position obtaining part configured to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070050373 - System and method to transform results of client requests using client uploaded presentation formats: Method and apparatus to facilitate access to a network-based publication system. In an embodiment, a user or third party affiliate of a network-based publication system uploads a style sheet or other presentation format file to a database in the network-based publication system. Thereafter, the user or third party affiliate sends... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070050376 - System and methods for secure service oriented architectures: Provided is a method for intercepting a message between a requesting web service and a source web service, validating the message, logging the result of the validations, and adding a security profile to the message. The method may also include examining the message to determine whether a security profile is... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070050372 - Systems and methods for creating, managing and publishing advertisements: A media distribution system and method, such as an advertising system and method, allows a user to quickly create, manage and publish digital media at numerous media sites using web-based tools. The system also includes a web-based media space search and selection tool that enables a user to select the... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070050383 - Completeness in dependency networks: The invention improves document generation systems in which data is collected to enable automated, customised document generation. initially, a questionnaire which defines a dataset is completed. The system then determines which variables are relevant, and then determines whether all relevant variables are in the dataset. Finally, the system generates a... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070050385 - Enhanced human computer user interface system for searching and browsing documents: A system and method for presenting document records to a user through a display interface, comprising means for processing data of the first type through a first applet and data of the second type through a second applet and separately extracting data of the two different types using the separate... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070050379 - Highlighting entities in a display representation of a database query, results of a database query, and debug message of a database query to indicate associations: An apparatus and method highlight entities in a display representation of a database query, result of a database query, and debug message of a database query to indicate associations, statistics, trends, and/or different groupings. Due to conventional techniques used to write database queries, display results of database queries, and the... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20070050381 - Indexes that are based on bitmap values and that use summary bitmap values: A database management system that has bitmap values in which set bits in a representation of a bitstring specify a set of objects whose definitions are built into the database management system. The database management system further includes user-accessible operations on the bitmap values. The bitmap values are represented by... Agent: Gordon E. Nelson, Patent Attorney, PC

20070050380 - Nullable and late binding: Systems and methods that enhance a programming language by introducing null unification on a type level in addition to a value level, for static types of both reference and value types T. An operator that adds a level of nullability (and removes such nullability) is introduced without a mention of... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070050382 - System, program product, and methods to enhance media content management: Embodiments of systems, program products, and methods to enhance and more effectively manage media content are provided. An embodiment of a program product stored in a tangible computer medium, for example, can include instructions to perform the operation of providing an industry generic framework to thereby provide a content management... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070050384 - Two-level n-gram index structure and methods of index building, query processing and index derivation: Disclosed relates to a structure of two-level n-gram inverted index and methods of building the same, processing queries and deriving the index that reduce the size of n-gram inverted index and improves the query performance by eliminating the redundancy of the position information that exists in the n-gram inverted index.... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070050389 - Advertisement placement based on expressions about topics: A method for analyzing and organizing expressions about topics (ETs) identified in digitally available content is provided. Expressions about topics could be categorized in at least two distinct groups, such as positive ETs and negative ETs. Each categorized expression-topic set could be ranked within its own group based on a... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20070050388 - Device and method for text stream mining: A method and system for categorizing text clusters a stream of text into clusters. A subject matter expert explores the clusters using a rule based analysis module by creating one or more rules or synonyms.... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070050391 - Method and apparatus for redefining a group of related objects in a relational database system: Techniques for redefining a group of related objects in a relational database system by redefining a table belonging to the group of related objects and then redefining the other related objects in the group so that they are in conformity with the redefined table. The techniques permit DDL to be... Agent: Gordon E Nelson Patent Attorney, PC

20070050390 - Method and apparatus for the defragmentation of a file system: A method, system and computer program product for the defragmentation of a file system with little or no free space. Defragmenting file fragments in a memory file system comprises determining a defragmentation sequence for re-ordering fragments of files in the file system; determining if at least one fragment in the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070050386 - Method, system, and computer program for translating information for compatibility with an information handling system: In one embodiment, at least one information handling system receives an excerpt of information. In response to a configuration of the information handling system, the information handling system performs at least one of the following operations: automatically translating the excerpt from an XML format into a non-XML format, so that... Agent: Davis Law Group, P.C.

20070050387 - Method, system, and computer program product for automatically performing an operation in response to information: In one embodiment, at least one information handling system receives an excerpt of information. In response to the excerpt, the information handling system performs at least one of the following operations: in an XML format, automatically storing the excerpt in a folder that is preselected by a first user, wherein... Agent: Davis Law Group, P.C.

20070050392 - Data change notifications: A framework for data change notification includes a notification queue storing event notifications. Client applications can request event information regarding various data change events. For example, a client application can subscribe, via one or more APIs, to receive event information. The framework allows for session specific event notification mechanisms as... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070050401 - Enhanced human computer user interface system for searching and browsing documents: A system and method for presenting document records to a user through a display interface, comprising means for processing data of the first type through a first applet and data of the second type through a second applet and separately extracting data of the two different types using the separate... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070050396 - Fast algorithm for building multimedia library database: A method of building a database of multimedia files is presented that is designed to provide a fast algorithm to build the database in a digital multimedia device, having large capacity storage media but relatively slow access time and a limited amount of fast RAM memory space.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070050398 - File processor, method of processing files, and program for processing files: A file processor which couples a plurality of files to create one coupled file including: a file selector that designates a plurality of files to be coupled; a security setting information extracting part that extracts security setting information which includes a setting item which is relevant to security being set... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070050402 - Linking dvds to the internet: A method and system for communicatively linking one or more items of digital content to a fixed media for presenting to a user. A graphical user interface capable of receiving data from a user is provided. The received data can be used to identify the one or more items of... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070050397 - Metadata generating apparatus, information processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, video conference system, security system, method of generating metadata, and program: A metadata generating apparatus generating metadata associated with content data continuously generated in real time includes an additional information acquiring unit that acquires additional information corresponding to at least one piece of the content data and a link information adding unit that adds link information uniquely identifying the at least... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070050394 - Method and apparatus for automated database creation from web services description language (wsdl): In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a tool is presented for automatically generating a database in a Web Services environment. A database is identified. A Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document associated with a Web Services is identified. The elements of the WSDL document are examined to... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070050393 - Search system and method: A search system and method are provided that uses taxonomies, entities, facets, and ontologies to provide a user with a more comprehensive set of search results in response to a query. The search system has an indexing engine that performs one or more indexing steps that permit the search engine... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070050395 - Secure schema identifier generation: A system that generates a unique identifier that employs a public key of a cryptographic key pair as a contribution to a name for an attribute associated with a schema. Additionally, a hash over the relevant entity name, version, and culture can be employed to automatically produce the remaining portion... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070050399 - Storage and retrieval of richly typed hierarchical network models: A Composite Pattern with BLOB data types is used to model a hierarchical network, and includes a path-like construct for locating each component within the network model. Database procedures are used to efficiently search, modify and retrieve individual nodes from the network model using the database server's memory pool so... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070050400 - Time-span representation and time chain of events in a relational database: A method to produce a history of at least a portion of a database comprising: providing a data store that includes a record indicating a first event associated with first data that describes a subject matter, and indicating a first time interval during which the first data is effective with... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070050403 - Methods and systems for providing context-based reference information: Methods and systems are disclosed for providing within edited shell documents contextual information associated with a referenced object. The methods and systems may receive a request from an author to insert a reference to a fragment object into a shell document reflecting content to be displayed and generate response data... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070050404 - Schema packaging, distribution and availability: A system and/or methodology that enables schema packaging, distribution and availability. Aspects of the invention employ signing technology to facilitate secure definition of a schema package. The system and/or methodology can also include the schema package as a resource in a client-side assembly thereby guaranteeing that exactly the same infrastructure... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070050411 - Database for mixed media document system: A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070050412 - Image and information management system: A system and methods through which pictorial views of an object's configuration, arranged in a hierarchical fashion, are navigated by a person to establish a visual context within the configuration. The visual context is automatically translated by the system into a set of search parameters driving retrieval of structured data... Agent: Greenberg-traurig

20070050410 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium storing image processing program: An image processing apparatus includes an information embedding unit that, upon print output of a document image including link information for access to associated information, embeds identifier information uniquely corresponding to the link information in the document image; a local ID management unit that holds uniquely-set predetermined identification information; an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070050407 - Method and system for the creation and reuse of concise business schemas using a canonical library: An exemplary feature is a method for using XML Schema based standards. The method consists of constructing a reduced schema for a specific interaction from a collection of reusable artifacts. The method further consists of publishing the reduced schema in a repository thereby allowing the reduced schema to be reused.... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20070050405 - Method for configuring an automation installation: In a method for configuring an automation installation, a provider stores configuration data in a database. A buyer or client can download a copy from the database. Preferably, there is also stored in the database a description that is associated with the configuration data and which is also available for... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070050408 - Strategies for discovering media resources: Strategies are described for navigating through a database of media resources. The strategies present a user interface presentation that employs different display paradigms depending on the type of media resource being investigated. If the consumer is interrogating a media resource that has different associated “child” resources associated therewith, then a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070050406 - System and method for searching and analyzing media content: Disclosed is a system, method and computer-readable medium related to searching at least one media presentation. The media presentation may be a video such as a movie or television program, an audio presentation such as a song or music, or a printed media such as a book or publication. The... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070050413 - System and method for the transformation and canonicalization of semantically structured data: A method of transforming and canonicalizing semantically structured data includes obtaining data from a network of computers, applying text patterns to the obtained data and placing the data in a first data file, providing a second data file containing the obtained data in a uniform format, and generating interface specific... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070050409 - System, methods, and program product to trace content genealogy: Embodiments of systems, program products, and methods to manage content and distribution of media are provided. An embodiment of a system, for example, can include a communication network for transmitting media files, a content management server having a processor and memory coupled to the processor, a database accessible to the... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070050418 - Communication method for storage devices on the basis of file access: A communication method for storage device on the basis of file access is provided. When a storage controller is added with a nonstandard control function, a command file and a response file are virtually produced in the memory as the communicating interface with an application program. The virtual files can... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070050422 - Data file synchronous update: A method and a circuit for updating cyclic data files in sequential access storage elements, including storing, in at least one index file, itself cyclic, respective indexes of the data files and, in at least one index register, the current index of the index file.... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070050421 - Document management system, method of setting document management system, and computer product: A data storing unit stores at least one of cabinet data and user data. A data retrieving unit retrieves either one of the cabinet data and the user data from the data storing unit. A group creating unit creates a first group. A group retrieving unit retrieves a second group... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070050416 - Electronic data snapshot generator: A snapshot of electronic data is generated to provide information about a file at a specific point in time. The snapshot may be shared between several users. The snapshot is generated based on the type of snapshot that is requested. The snapshot types include a static snapshot, a published item... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070050414 - File management device: The present invention relates to a file management technique using indexes, wherein retrieval results and conditions for retrieval are recorded and stored on an entry for a virtual folder on the index for efficient later use. By this feature, objects for retrieval can be refined by using the recorded retrieval... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070050423 - Intelligent general duplicate management system: A method of managing duplicate electronic files for a plurality of users across a distributed network, the electronic files being from a plurality of different file types, comprising selecting a file type from the plurality of different file types, selecting properties of the electronic files for the selected file type... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070050420 - Method and apparatus for transferring data between databases: A method and apparatus is disclosed for transferring data between database in which a relationship governing the transfer is defined in a configuration file.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070050415 - Methods and apparatus for scheduling an action on a computer: One embodiment is directed to a computer system that includes primary and secondary storage systems. When a request to store a content unit is received, it may be determined whether to store the content unit on the primary storage system or the secondary storage system. In another embodiment, a computer... Agent: Emc Corporation Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070050419 - Mixed media reality brokerage network and methods of use: A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment,... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070050417 - Storage management method and a storage system: In a storage system, a multi-site management system receives a fault notification related to a copy in one or more storage devices from a storage management system, then it requests a storage management system which manages a storage device having a volume in a pair of volumes associated with the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070050424 - Systems and methods for manipulating and managing computer archive files: A computer program for managing and manipulating archive zip files of a computer. The program includes a system and method for opening, creating, and modifying, and extracting zip archive files. The program is fully integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer and is accessed via Explorer menus, toolbars, and/or drag and drop... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070050425 - Log management program of a computer, log management method thereof, and computer system: According to the present invention, even when any one of the computers constituting a computer system becomes inoperable, a series of flow of distributed processing can be traced. Application program 120 in computer 100A requests computer 100B to perform a part of the series of the processes (S106). Log information... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070050426 - Platform with management agent to receive software updates: In some embodiments, a platform has an active and a dormant state. The platform includes a primary network interface and a mass storage, a management agent having a secondary network interface to receive a software update at least during the dormant state and further having a non-volatile memory to cache... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

20070050427 - System and method for validating application globalization issues and computer product: A system, method, and computer product for validating application globalization issues are provided herein. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a computer system is provided which comprises a globalization rules indicating component; an application static analyzing component; an application running component; an application dynamic analyzing component; and... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070050430 - Method and system for updating content stored in a storage device: Method and system for in-place updating original content of an original version stored in a non-volatile storage device and for yielding updated content of an updated version. Wherein at least part of content of each one of n (n>1) blocks of the original version are modified in the updated version.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070050428 - Method and system for version control of composite design objects: A method, system and computer program product for version control in design tools. The method manages the information of one or more files in the design tools. A set of files forming a composite object are arranged as a single object in the form of a package. A new version... Agent: William L. Botjer

20070050429 - Time-range locking for temporal database and branched-and-temporal databases: A method of accessing a version of a row in a temporal database includes checking at least a timestamp associated with the version of the row against a lock criteria for the row. Based on a result of the checking step, it is determined whether to access the version of... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070050431 - Deploying content between networks: A system to deploy content from one network to another includes an export search component. During an export process, a level-based scan of a content database is performed to efficiently find children and dependencies of the object(s) to be deployed. An export object table is created and filled with the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)